The New York Review of Books recently praised Louise W. Knight’s Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy. From the review by Alan Ryan:
From 1950 to 1954, Senator Joseph McCarthy and his infamous list of "Reds" were at the center of every major congressional debate. These days, most
The LA Weekly recently published a favorable review of Stephen Yenser’s Blue Guide. From the review by Tom Cheyney: "Yenser’s new collection, Blue Guide, inhabits
A memoir of a childhood spent in unspeakable circumstances, When God Looked the Other Way: An Odyssey of War, Exile, and Redemption illuminates one of
Economics, as you may remember from ECON 101, is about the allocation of scare resources. There is an irony, therefore, to the overused phrase information
The Journal of American History recently reviewed William Howland Kenney’s Jazz on the River: "The history of how riverboat entertainment venues shaped the evolution of
The London Review of Books recently praised Robert Bruegmann’s Sprawl: A Compact History. From the review by Andrew Saint: "To judge whether sprawl is a
When you think of the founding fathers, you think of men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin—exceptional minds and matchless statesmen who led
In a time when the arrival of yet another Starbucks, Best Buy, or Borders to a neighborhood is viewed as routine, the presence of the
The Press is pleased to announce that several of its authors have been named Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows for 2006. Fellowships recognize "individuals
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