NYT Books in Review: “Counselor,” “The Age of Reagan,” “Common Wealth,” “The Big Sort,” “The Colfax Massacre/The Day Freedom Died,” “Ida: A Sword Among Lions”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Rosenthal-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History, by Ted Sorensen
“John Kennedy’s speechwriter and close aid battled blindness to write a memoir.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Brinkley-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008, by Sean Wilentz
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Gross-t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet, by Jeffrey D. Sachs
“Today’s global crises…are different from those of the past, and require different solutions.”
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/18/books/review/Stossel-t.html?ref=books
The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart, by Bill Bishop with Robert G. Cushing
“[The writers] see danger in America’s increasingly homogeneous communities.” I have included the drawing that accompanies the review, since it is really neat.
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The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction, by Lee-Anna Keith
The Day Freedom Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal of Reconstruction, by Charles Lane
“How racists defrauded black voters in a Louisiana town in 1872, and then attacked and killed those who resisted…By dawn on Easter Monday, Colfax was littered with corpses; Reconstruction would soon collapse.”
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching, by Paula J. Giddings
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