A Promised Land
A Promised Land. A recollection and re-analyzation of Barack Obama’s campaigns for political office, through his first term as President. In A Promised Land, Barack Obama recalls and reanalyzes his first several campaigns for political office, his years as an Illinois politician, then his 2008 campaign for President of the United States and his first […]
This Fight is Our Fight
This Fight is Our Fight, written as teacher, scholar, and public servant with heart. When I think of Elizabeth Warren, I think of three things: teacher, scholar, and someone who genuinely cares about ordinary people. Her political polemic, This Fight Is Our Fight, demonstrates all three of these not inconsiderable strengths with a vengeance. An […]
Pelosi
Pelosi, a spectacularly successful politician. Molly Ball focuses her reporting on Nancy Pelosi, the politician, rather than Nancy Pelosi, the wife, mother, grandmother, and loyal friend. Ball traces Pelosi’s spectacularly successful career in the public limelight, beginning with her initial foray as a member of the San Francisco Public Library Commission, followed by her service […]
What the Eyes Don’t See
WHAT THE EYES DON’T SEE The contributions of immigrants to the articulation of and striving towards the “American Dream” are unassailable. Those contributions are still being made as evidenced by this memoir account of the Flint, Michigan water crisis of 2015. Mona Hanna-Attisha is a pediatrician of Iraqi descent, primarily a clinician and teacher of […]
What Happened
WHAT HAPPENED Like a dedicated political junkie, I followed in real time the events that Hillary Clinton retraces in her book about the 2016 presidential campaign. I thoroughly enjoyed reading What Happened because I liked comparing her insider interpretations with my own outsider perceptions. She was living the highs and the lows while I was […]
Steinem revisited: My Life on the Road
My Life on the Road Several times in her most recent memoir, My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem admits her affinity for cultures that organize themselves circularly, rather than linearly. Beginning with her time living in India, reemphasized by her abiding friendship with Wilma Mankiller (first female chief elected by the Cherokee Nation), and […]
Trudi York Gardner – A Very Funny Lady
This is a heads-up for all of you who take the time to read a bit about what I’m reading. Although books carry the burden of the site, I read more than just books. I read my bills, emails from my kids (What? Your kids send you emails?), newspapers and a few magazines. By the […]