Culture Shocks

Steve Coll, Barbara Ehrenreich

robinson — Tue, 15 May 2012 19:41:01 +0000

In Private Empire Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of ExxonMobil’s power. Later, author Barbara Ehrenreich talks about The Animal Cure in The Baffler magazine.

Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy

robinson — Mon, 14 May 2012 19:40:09 +0000

In The Presidents Club, journalists and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy offer a new tool to understand the presidency by exploring the club as a hidden instrument of power that has changed the course of history.

Col. Thomas J. Foley

robinson — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:39:26 +0000

The news of the notorious gangster Whitey Bulger’s capture—after sixteen years on the FBI’s Most Wanted list—swept the nation Col. Thomas J. Foley tells what happened in Most Wanted.

Bay Buchanan, Bill Press

robinson — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:38:43 +0000

In Bay and Her Boys, conservative political analyst, Bay Buchanan takes the reader on a candid trip into the world of single working motherhood. Then liberal radio host and author, Bill Press talks bout The Obama Hate Machine and how the Right has taken rhetoric to slanderous new levelsin attacking president.

Roy Saltman

robinson — Wed, 09 May 2012 19:37:54 +0000

Roy Saltman responds to the new atheists in Sacred Humanism Without Miracles.

Eric Berkowitz

robinson — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:37:07 +0000

Eric Berkowitz uses flesh-and-blood cases to evoke the entire sweep of Western sex law, from the savage impalement of an Ancient Mesopotamian adulteress to the imprisonment of Oscar Wilde in 1895 for “gross indecency” in Sex and Punishment.

R. Andrew Chesnut

robinson — Tue, 01 May 2012 20:27:01 +0000

R. Andrew Chesnut shows how Santa Muerte, a skeleton saint with millions of devotees, has become the patron saint of drug traffickers in Devoted to Death.

Jim Robbins

robinson — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:26:36 +0000

The Man Who Planted Trees is not a detailed how-to guide to planting; it is a touching story of Elzéard Bouffier, who devoted his entire life to reforesting a desolate portion of Provence, in southern France.

Mathew Barrett, Mel Gilles

robinson — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:12:26 +0000

Authors Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles combine history, current events, and psychological and cultural analysis to reveal the profound influence of apocalyptic thinking on America’s past, present, and future in The Last Myth.

Jim Gullo, Tim Wendel

robinson — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 21:00:58 +0000

Trading Manny is Jim Gullo’s moving story of how a father and his young son recaptured their love of baseball—a winning testament to why the game matters and how it can still bring us together in spite of itself. Later, Tim Wendel tells the extraordinary story of the 1968 baseball season—when the game was played to perfection even as the country was being pulled apart at the seams in Summer of ’68.