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Released: April 10, 2013
"Generally engaging and often illuminating, but the study might better have gone deeper rather than wide."
The veteran journalist offers a survey of political caricature, international in scope, but a little sketchy in its short biographical summaries.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"A mediocre book, but it's not difficult to understand why Burnett wrote it. Instead of buying it, rent Tokyo Pop, a 1988 cult classic starring a young, radiant Hamilton."
Comedian Burnett (
This Time Together, 2010, etc.) limns her relationship with her eldest daughter, Carrie Hamilton, who died of cancer at age 38.
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Strictly for those who fetishize gaudy hotels, Mafia chic and sappy ballads."
The crooner who penned Frank Sinatra's signature tune reminisces about the Rat Pack, the shifting landscape of popular music and the truth behind the phrase, "What Happens in Vegas, Stays in Vegas."
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Released: April 9, 2013
"Essential reading for runners both competitive and casual."
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Released: April 4, 2013
"An intriguing ride through "all the wondrous quirks and oddities in human nature.""
In this often heady blend of science, philosophy and sociology, Simons (Univ. of California Graduate School of Journalism;
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America, 2009) tries to get at the root of fandom, that sometimes appalling display of irrational behavior, which appears to be "a species-level design flaw."
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Released: April 2, 2013
"A must-read for anyone who has wondered why the Stone Roses ever mattered. "
As definitive an account of the surprising rise and spectacular fall of seminal 1980s Brit rockers the Stone Roses as a fan could hope for.
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Released: April 2, 2013
"Aptly titled, this bittersweet scrapbook demonstrates the kind of steely fortitude necessary to remain afloat through a lifetime of stormy weather."
The multitalented Reynolds nostalgically expands on a fruitful career and a chaotic adulthood.
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Released: April 1, 2013
"The blues master emerges more as a cliché than a living artist."
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Released: April 1, 2013
"Almost always charming, occasionally enlightening and sometimes just plain odd."
An idiosyncratic collection of interviews with American Jews on, off and some barely near the field of baseball.
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Released: April 1, 2013
"Still, a glimpse into a world that few readers know firsthand--and good thing for them."
"Sometimes I wonder if magical thinking is my alcohol," writes Blaine, a crisis interventionist in Nashville, in this self-aware, literate memoir of adventures in the para-shrink trade.
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Released: April 1, 2013
"A serviceable biography for hard-core fans of early baseball."
In baseball's long history, only two men have started a World Series as a pitcher and as a position player: Babe Ruth and, easily, among the best players
not in the Hall of Fame, Smoky Joe Wood (1889–1995), the subject of this biography.
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Released: April 1, 2013
"An absolute must for any baseball fan's library."
A baseball historian recaptures Chicago's most notorious era and the city's love affair with one of baseball's most colorful teams.
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