Discover: Book Review
Book Review: Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker
This book tells the remarkable story of a beautiful family and a devastating illness. The mental disorder struck six sons and had them committed frequently to state hospitals for a…
Book Review — A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick
For this first biography of an essayist and critic, the author researched numerous archived letter collections. Prolific letter writers leave a storehouse of material for biographers to construct life stories.…
Book Review: Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward In the Appalachian Mountains
With this book Cassie Chambers is honoring her Granny, Aunt Ruth, and mother Wilma who each encouraged and supported her quest for college experience and success away from the farm.…
Book Review — "Rememberings" by Sinead O'Connor
Young people who have grown up in difficult home surroundings, with parents who were not loving, but courageously found ways to overcome adversity should and do write their stories. Add…
Book Review: Freedom by Sebastian Junger
Freedom is an everchanging feature of our lives. Will you be pulled along by cultural changes and government reforms? Are you inclined to hang on to what you got? Or,…
Book Review—Looking To Get Lost: Adventures in Music & Writing
As a young music fan I had preferences. I do not now accept the adage, “I like all kinds of music.” And I did not then. I did not have…
The Contralto and a Tremelo Guitar
Kot, Greg. I’ll Take You There: Mavis Staples, The Staple Singers, and the March Up Freedom’s Highway. Scribner: New York. 2014. The young, wholesome face of Mavis Staples graces the…
In the Moment—a Book Review
In this book, Possibilities, by Herbie Hancock, the words seem to flow as the author’s music career has evolved—smoothly and naturally. Herbie’s musical talent was apparent at age eleven, when…
Book Review: Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom
Judge Andrew Napolitano’s in depth, shocking and historical account of how a Republican and a Democrat President managed to shift power from what the country was built on, the individual,…
Book Review: Bad Blood, Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Start-Up
Dr. Robert Greer reviews Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup The American con game is alive, well, and upfront and center in John Carreyrou’s meticulously researched…
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