Once there was a golden age where knowledge and science seemed poised to save the world or destroy it. The brightest star in this world was J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist renowned for his grace, his extraordinary good... Read More
Maginnis has uncovered an intriguing historical event upon which to base his first novel. Knowing that the individuals who make up this tale actually existed during the period after the successful Mexican Revolution, lends an intensity... Read More
Primo Levi, who died in 1987 in what is believed to be a suicide, was a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp and one of the most profound writers to emerge from the Holocaust. Levi’s testimony to the horrors he suffered can be... Read More
“The United States does not have a gun problem,” the author asserts, “it has a handgun problem.” So many Americans are killed and wounded by pistols, argues Sugarman, executive director of the Violence Policy Center, that nothing... Read More
One day in the mid-1970s a group of tabloid writers and editors were drinking at a dingy Chicago bar. They worked for the National News Extra, the tabloid that on Dec. 8, 1974 published the headline that gave this book its title. They... Read More
In spite of what one might believe from reading the available literature, not all of the daring and colorful characters who explored our western frontier were men. Anyone curious about some of the more interesting women who settled—and... Read More
“I can see no business avocation, in which woman, in her present dress, can possibly earn equal wages with man—and [I] feel that it is folly for us to make the demand until we adapt our dress to our work.” That was the opinion of... Read More
Not short on words for even the smallest of things, the sparks in this collection are the many bits of language that flare out from the subject, ranging from the death of a father, to loves and intimacies, to figures from history. In... Read More