Sunday, November 16, 2014

Book Review with The New York Times

'Knife Fights'

By JOHN A. NAGL
Reviewed by DEXTER FILKINS
John A. Nagl writes about his 20-year struggle to prod the Army into adapting to the modern reality of guerrilla war.

War wounds: A former soldier with post-traumatic stress disorder, 2012.'The Invisible Front'

By YOCHI DREAZEN
Reviewed by DAVID ROHDE
Through the story of one family, Yochi Dreazen examines the military's response to rising numbers of post-Iraq and -Afghanistan suicides.
Americans on patrol in Espondi, Afghanistan, November 2007.

'Why We Lost'

By DANIEL BOLGER
Reviewed by ANDREW J. BACEVICH

In "Why We Lost," Daniel Bolger says abysmal generalship doomed American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Nuruddin Farah: By the Book

The author of "Hiding in Plain Sight" wasn't much of a reader as a child: "Books were hard to come by . . . where I grew up, but also because there were no books for children in those days."
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Truman Hunt and the Igorrotes at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.

'The Lost Tribe of Coney Island'

By CLAIRE PRENTICE
Reviewed by ROBIN HEMLEY
In the early 1900s, an American huckster brought despair to a group of Filipino tribespeople.

Richard Ford'Let Me Be Frank With You'

By RICHARD FORD
Reviewed by JONATHAN MILES
Richard Ford's aging Everyman surveys his life, and the battered New Jersey landscape, after Hurricane Sandy.
High command: Jacques-Louis David's

'Napoleon: A Life'

By ANDREW ROBERTS
Reviewed by DUNCAN KELLY
The French emperor as soldier, statesman, intellectual and flawed visionary.

Rockefeller's final presidential bid was 'On His Own Terms'

By RICHARD NORTON SMITH
Reviewed by TIMOTHY NOAH
Nelson Rockefeller, the subject of a new biography, was a big-government, big-spending liberal - and a Republican.

'More Awesome Than Money'

By JIM DWYER
Reviewed by KATE CRAWFORD
Four university students tried to create a nonprofit, privacy-protected alternative to Facebook.
William Wells Brown in the 1850s.

'William Wells Brown: An African American Life'

By EZRA GREENSPAN
Reviewed by NELL IRVIN PAINTER
Born into slavery, William Wells Brown escaped to freedom and reinvented himself as an author, lecturer and doctor.
By KERRY HOWLEY
Reviewed by KATHERINE DUNN
A writer finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts.
Tennessee Williams on the set of

'Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh'

By JOHN LAHR
Reviewed by BLAKE BAILEY
Tennessee Williams spun unhappiness into dramatic gold, John Lahr's study shows.

Thomas Page McBee'Man Alive'

By THOMAS PAGE McBEE
Reviewed by HENRY GIARDINA
A transgender writer's memoir of forgiveness and discovery.
Twenty-one thousand officers and soldiers honor Woodrow Wilson at Camp Sherman, Ohio, 1918.

'The Deluge'

By ADAM TOOZE
Reviewed by GARY J. BASS
Between the Great War and the Depression, the world was remade by American economic and military power.
Crime

Patricia Cornwell's 'Flesh and Blood,' and More

By MARILYN STASIO
In Cornwell's new thriller, Kay Scarpetta's expertise is needed with a murder victim, a man once accused of being a terrorist.

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