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Rachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide

Lisa Rogak’s well-researched Rachel Maddow: A Biography (Thomas Dunne Books) details Maddow’s life from growing up in the conservative town of Castro Valley, CA, as the youngest child of Elaine and Robert Maddow to becoming the popular and brilliant superstar political pundit for MSNBC-TV on the Emmy award-winning  The Rachel…
Carole Claps
January 7, 2020
Nonfiction

An Insider’s Account of the Real Barbara Bush

As many political figures are frequently judged by the loudest voices, we tend to form assumptions quickly and easily about those in power. Presidents are prime subjects for these swift judgments, but their wives are not exempt from public scrutiny either. Barbara Bush could conjure a myriad of strong perceptions,…
Rebecca Proulx
April 5, 2019
Nonfiction

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

“Political power,” writes biographer Robert A. Caro, “shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about.” That’s why Caro explains in his new not-a-memoir Working (Knopf) that he chose as subjects for his massive writing projects the great forces that…
Jim Alkon
May 1, 2019
Nonfiction

The Woman Who Could Have Been the First in Space

That would be an appropriate epitaph for the women of the Mercury 13, or Woman in Space, program, a privately funded project in the early 1960s to test women pilots for astronaut fitness. The women never made it into space – the program was abruptly cancelled -- but they are…
Brielle Heinl
March 13, 2019