A look at two new books, Everything Must Change: The World After COVID-19 and Rediscovering Earth: Ten Dialogues on the Future of Nature
Ben Terrall
On March 18, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe spoke at a National Postal Forum in San Francisco, prompting picketing by rank…
Book by William I. Robinson; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2008, 440 pp. Last year, UC Santa Barbara sociology professor William I.…
By Antonia Juhasz; NYC: William Morrow, 2008, 480 pp. In responding to an attack on her book in the Washington Post, Antonia…
Dalton Trumbo began writing professionally as a cub reporter while still in high school in Grand Junction, Colorado. His first Hollywood screenwriting…
As I flew from JFK to Port-au-Prince Airport on August 11, a fellow journalist handed me the front section of that day’s…
By Josephn Nevins; City Lights Publishers, 2008, 225 pp. In his 2001 book, Operation Gatekeeper, Joseph Nevins focused on the Clinton…
In his 2001 book, Operation Gatekeeper: The Rise of the ‘Illegal Alien’ and the Remaking of the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (Routledge), Joseph Nevins focused on…
By Peter Hallward; Verso, 2008, 488 pp. Of all the illegal and dishonest misadventures that the Bush administration got away with, the…
When Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, better known as ‘Lula’, visits Washington on March 31, he will likely spend most…