Category Archives: Book Reviews

Are You Ready For The Next Stage?

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Luke Ford

Shabbat dinner at the home of Rabbi Claudia Rubin in London. "Which is?" asks Robin Buckley, a journalist at the Times (of London). "Drinking the blood of Christian babies…" I’m reading a great new novel by Charlotte Mendelson — When … Continue reading →

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Five Great Books On Journalism

Posted on December 2, 2007 by Luke Ford

Tom Brokaw writes for the WSJ: 1. "The Boys on the Bus" by Timothy Crouse (Random House, 1973). The five books I’ve chosen to write about reflect my own attitudes about the craft I’ve practiced for 45 years now. They’re … Continue reading →

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100 Notable Books Of The Year

Posted on November 22, 2007 by Luke Ford

From the New York Times: Fiction & Poetry THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER. By Tom Perrotta. (St. Martin’s, $24.95.) In this new novel by the author of “Little Children,” a sex-ed teacher faces off against a church bent on ridding her town … Continue reading →

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‘Big Daddy: Jesse Unruh and the Art of Power Politics,’ by Bill Boyarsky

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Luke Ford

Peter Schrag writes in the LA Times: Not only was Unruh a central player in the forging of California’s great postwar highway, university and water systems and the creation of its progressive governmental institutions, he also was a man with … Continue reading →

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Naked Ambition

Posted on October 26, 2007 by Luke Ford

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