NYT Books in Review: “Supreme Discomfort,” “The Reagan Diaries,” A Young People’s History of the United States,” “Cape Wind”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Patterson-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print

Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Phillips-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Reagan Diaries, by Ronald Reagan

“A one-volume version of the 40th president’s daily record…The Reagans initiated the diaries as memory books, ‘a way to capture the moment and our feelings.'”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Kirn3-t.html?pagewanted=print

A Young People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn

Volume One: Columbus to the Spanish-American War
Volume Two: Class Struggle to the War on Terror

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/17/books/review/Sullivan2-t.html?pagewanted=print

Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for Our Energy Future on Nantucket Sound, by Wendy Williams and Robert Whitcomb

“One company’s battle to build a wind farm in Nantucket Sound…Robert Kennedy Jr., in one bizarre radio appearance, lumped Cape Cod’s wind power proponents with ‘polluters.'”

 

 

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