Book Reviews
We Don't Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland, by Fintan O'Toole, published by Liveright, 616 pages, 6" x 9", black & white photos, indexed. The book is long; the writing is strong; the author was wrong.
New Orleans: A Writer's City, by T.R. Johnson, published by Cambridge University Press, is "a masterpiece in its architecture and its scope, in its edge-of-the-seat writing style and in its 'struggle to hold onto treasured cultural history while hemmed in on all sides by extraordinary devastation and loss.'
Death, Resurrection, and the Spirit of New Orleans: Jazz On The Tube Conversations, by Ken McCarthy. Fabulous collection of post-Katrina interviews on the cultural rebirth of the Crescent City.
On Corruption in America, by Sarah Chayes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 978-0525654858, explains how money shifted from a sign of success to a sign of excess.
Beautiful Economics: A Guide to Gentle World Domination, by Howard Collinge, Published in 2021 by powerHouse Books, Brooklyn, New York.
American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery, by Craig Unger (@craigunger ), published by Dutton in 2021
Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America, by Nancy MacLean, 2017, Penguin paperback edition, 334 pages, index, bibliography.
Looking Up at the Bottom Line: The Struggle for the Living Wage, by Richard R. Troxell, President of House the Homeless.
Out of the Dark: Essays, Letters, and Addresses on Physical and Social Vision, by Helen Keller, Kessinger Publishing Rare Reprints, ISBN 1437234704, 282 pages, hardcover. Originally published in 1920 by Doubleday, Page & Company
New Orleans: A Literary History, Edited by T. R. Johnson, Tulane University, Published by Cambridge University Press, 2019, Hardcover, 379 pages, 27 essays, contributor bios, historical photographs, indexed.
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, by Michael Wolff, Published by Henry Holt & Co, 2018, Hardcover, ISBN 978-1250158062
Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux ©2011, first paperback edition @2013.
Defacing the Currency: Selected Writings 1992-2012," by Bob Black. Published in 2012 by LBC Books, Berkeley, California, lbcbooks.com Softcover, 337 Pages, 5" x 7.5", Short Bibliography, No Index
Secrets of the Softer Side of Selling, 2nd Edition, by Donald S. Crawford & Lois Carter Crawford, Published by Marketing Idea Shop, LLC. 6" x 9" Paperback, 200 pages, ISBN 978-0-9742511-4-1, Illustrated with Forms; Bibliography; Glossary
Don't Sell Me, Tell Me, by Greg Koorhan, Published by Crossbow Studio, 146 pages, paperback, ISBN 978-0692748275
Almost Everything: Notes on Hope, by Anne Lamott, Published by Riverhead Books, 2018, 192 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-05255-37441