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Hackley-Lambert writes about the overlooked life of H.H.M. Murray, a champion civil rights activist, and of a defining human rights event, the Niagra Movement.
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Book Review: Cleaning Up – How I Gave Up Drinking and Lived by Tania Glyde
A personal account fails to explain Britain's binge drinking "epidemic".
Read More »DVD Review: Digging For The Truth – DVD And Book Collection From The History Channel
If you like history, if you like the exploration and the mystery of historical situations, then you will love Digging For The Truth!
Read More »Book Review: Legends Of The Chelsea Hotel – Living with the Artists and Outlaws of New York’s Rebel Mecca by Ed Hamilton
If ever there was a hotel with a checkered history, it would have to be New York's infamous Chelsea.
Read More »An Interview With Writer Kinky Friedman, Author of You Can Lead a Politician to Water, But You Can’t Make Him Think: Ten Commandments for Texas Politics
"I wrote this book for the same reason I ran for governor — to try to make Texas a better place."
Read More »Book Review: Johnny Cash: The Biography by Michael Streissguth
This may not be the definitive biography of the legendary Man In Black, but it is the best I have read to date.
Read More »Book Review: They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories Of A Jewish Childhood In Poland Before The Holocaust by Mayer Kirshenblatt & Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Mayer Kirshenblatt and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett give the world a precious gift by bringing the pre-War town of Apt, Poland, back to life.
Read More »Book Review: Spitfire Women of World War II by Giles Whittell
Female pilots were essential to the war effort, and Whittell puts their stories down on paper.
Read More »Book Review: Can’t Buy Me Love – The Beatles, Britain, And America by Jonathan Gould
For any Beatles fan, reading this book will definitely take you back.
Read More »Book Review: Postcards From Ed – Dispatches And Salvos From An American Iconoclast, Edited By David Petersen
...the monkey wrench is not a symbol of destruction, but a symbol of the potential in all of us to restore the world with our abilities.
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