Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, May 30, 2024

I go da da for Da Da

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George Grosz (1893-1959),  The Guilty One Remains Unknown , 1919, pen and Italian ink drawing, collage on cardboard, the Art Institute of Ch...
Friday, May 10, 2024

Oppenheimer's biographer Kai Bird at the Aspen

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Kai Bird and Marie Arana at the Aspen Institute, May 6, 2024/ By Patricia Leslie At a talk at the  Aspen Institute  earlier this month with ...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Highly recommended: 'Your Table Is Ready'

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Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll… And would you like some food with that?  That pretty well sums up the first half of Your Table Is Ready by Micha...
Thursday, August 24, 2023

Gottlieb's 'Avid Reader' highly recommended for the wordy

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Like so many other memoirs, I was led to Avid  Reader: A Life (2016)  by the obituary of the author, Robert Gottlieb (1931-2023), the exal...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

Another must for journalists: Carl Bernstein's book

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  You know it's a "must." He's a "must" for anyone who's a news-aholic, and/or in the writing business (whic...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

Book review: 'The Columnist' by Donald A. Ritchie, highly recommended for journalism scholars

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Who's the Drew Pearson now? I can think of no one who fits the bill. Drew Pearson (1897-1969) was a muckraking journalist who helped s...
Thursday, November 4, 2021

Book review: 'The Woman Who Stole Vermeer'

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  Rose Dugdale  is 80 years old this year and practically an icon in Ireland where she romped and fought the British for years. Always proud...
Tuesday, August 17, 2021

Book review: 'The Assassination of Trotsky'

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A Diego Rivera mural depicts Trotsky with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, "true champions of the workers' struggle." Part of t...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Rating the Trump books

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I haven't read the estimated  4,500 Trump books which is the amount the Guardian estimates has been  published since he took office in ...
Tuesday, June 22, 2021

John Bolton's hilarious 'Room' of their own

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You just thought Trump 's White House was chaotic. Readers, not only was it chaotic, but John Bolton is here to tell you it was lots ...
Thursday, December 31, 2020

Book review: 'Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up' is highly recommended

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  The chief message to journalists: Don't give up. If I were in charge of reading lists for journalism students, this would be on it, a...
Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Book review: Bob Woodward's 'Rage'

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Readers, he's much worse than you thought. The first quarter of Rage is rather ho-hum, nothing much new as Bob Woodward sets the stage...