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Best Nonfiction of 2012 (page 6)


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Cover art for ARE YOU MY MOTHER?
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012
by Alison Bechdel, illustrated by Alison Bechdel

"Subtitled "A Comic Drama," the narrative provides even fewer laughs than its predecessor but deeper introspection."
A psychologically complex, ambitious, illuminating successor to the author's graphic-memoir masterpiece. Read full book review >
Cover art for ON THE EVE
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012

"A wide-ranging, marvelously complete overview of a diverse, teeming civilization poised for ruin."
A bright, hard glimpse at the final thriving days of European Jewry and the first edges of its unraveling. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE PASSAGE OF POWER
NONFICTION
Released: May 1, 2012

"The Johnson project deserves equal praise."
The fourth volume of one of the most anticipated English-language biographies of the past 30 years. Read full book review >
Cover art for SEASON OF THE WITCH
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"Though he's a little too enamored with "angel-headed hipsters" and "fairy dust," Talbot takes the reader much deeper than cliché, exploring a San Francisco that tourists never discover."
An ambitious, labor-of-love illumination of a city's soul, celebrating the uniqueness of San Francisco without minimizing the price paid for the city's free-spiritedness. Read full book review >
Cover art for THE PRESIDENTS CLUB
NONFICTION
Released: May 8, 2012

"In a well-researched, disinterested analysis, the authors show that collisions of ego, personality and politics can often result in creation, not destruction."
Two Time magazine editors chart the zigzag arc of relationships among the men who have occupied the White House since the mid-20th century. Read full book review >
Cover art for PREDATOR NATION
NONFICTION
Released: May 22, 2012

"A deeply argued call to action from a lucid, impassioned polemicist."
A concise, cogent assessment of the 2008 banking disaster and how the fallout has affected the country. Read full book review >