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2011 Best of Nonfiction: The Complete List (page 3)

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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Star LENNON: THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE MUSIC--THE DEFINITIVE LIFE
by Tim Riley
"Essential for Lennon fans, and one of the most thorough yet accessible rock biographies to appear in recent years."
After hundreds of books on the former Beatle, is there anything left to say? Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 20, 2011
Kirkus Star THE DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC: A TALE OF MADNESS, MEDICINE, AND THE MURDER OF A PRESIDENT
by Candice Millard
"Superb American history."
The shocking shooting and the painful, lingering death of the 20th president. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 19, 2011
Kirkus Star THE SWERVE: HOW THE WORLD BECAME MODERN
by Stephen Greenblatt
"More wonderfully illuminating Renaissance history from a master scholar and historian."
Greenblatt (Humanities/Harvard Univ.; Shakespeare's Freedom, 2010, etc.) makes another intellectually fetching foray into the Renaissance—with digressions into antiquity and the recent past—in search of a root of modernity. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 14, 2011
Kirkus Star LOVE AND CAPITAL: KARL AND JENNY MARX AND THE BIRTH OF A REVOLUTION
by Mary Gabriel
"A saga as richly realized as a fine Victorian novel."
Former Reuters journalist Gabriel (The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone, 2002, etc.) offers a rich, humanizing portrait of the Marx family. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 13, 2011
Kirkus Star AN UNQUENCHABLE THIRST: FOLLOWING MOTHER TERESA IN SEARCH OF LOVE, SERVICE, AND AN AUTHENTIC LIFE
by Mary Johnson
"Johnson's portrayal of her time as a nun is likely to be controversial; her memoir is exceptional."
Beautifully crafted memoir of one woman's experience in Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity. Read full book review >
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NONFICTION
Released: Sept. 1, 2011
Kirkus Star THE BODY POLITIC: THE BATTLE OVER SCIENCE IN AMERICA
by Jonathan D. Moreno

An eminent bioethicist presents a nuanced survey of the fraught politics of science in 21st-century America. Read full book review >