Biography

Meet a Pillar of the Vegas Gambling Community in “Paul S. Endy Jr.: Las Vegas Gaming Legend”

Author Eric Endy had a front-row seat to much of that history and documents it vividly and thoroughly through the story of his father in Paul S. Endy Jr., Las Vegas Casino Gaming Legend. Paul Endy, a 1997 inductee into the Nevada Gaming Hall of Fame, made a name for…

Jim AlkonMay 18, 2022

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The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

Theirs was an unlikely match. Isn’t that how all great love stories start? A Southern man, forced to rebuild his life after the Civil War, falls in love with a Northern woman with pedigree. It sounds like something straight out of a Nicholas Sparks novel. Only this story is real…

Kelsey HallFebruary 24, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

It was in the heat of one of the famous Lincoln – Douglas debates in 1858 for the Illinois Senate seat that the Democrat incumbent Stephen Douglas accused Abraham Lincoln of waffling on his position on slavery, the most contentious topic of the times. At one point, he called Lincoln…

Jim AlkonFebruary 16, 2022

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The Flamboyant Life and Lasting Legacy of the Portrait Photographer to the Art World

Born in 1907, George Platt Lynes was a sickly boy who grew up during the era of Muscular Christianity, a social movement that promoted manliness and vigor. Fortunately, no one stifled the child’s poetic sensibility and love of beauty. George, while lacking in self-awareness, was destined for flamboyance, passion and…

Claudia KeenanJanuary 3, 2022

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The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

Samuel Antek — first violinist with the famed NBC Symphony Orchestra for 17 years — captures what it was like to perform under Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who many consider to be the greatest conductor of the mid-20th century. In This Was Toscanini, his musical memoir published in 1963, Antek shared…

K.L. RomoAugust 17, 2021

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The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

“Don’t try to rehabilitate me,” Philip Roth told biographer Blake Bailey. “Just make me interesting.” Based on the early returns, Bailey has done just that in his much-anticipated Philip Roth: The Biography (W.W. Norton & Company). —∞— “A monumental gift in the realm of international letters. I wept and railed,…

BookTribApril 5, 2021

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Hidden Figures Emerge in “Overnight Code”

In an era of shattering glass ceilings, no story tells of overcoming adversity better than this captivating memoir. Paige Bowers and David Montague tell the incredible story of Raye Montague, the engineer credited with creating the first digital draft of a United States naval ship, in Overnight Code. From humble…

Gabby TorrentiJanuary 12, 2021

Nonfiction

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

When he was fifteen years old, Justus Rosenberg snuck into a Wagner music festival. The next year, as Nazis descended upon his town of Danzig, he stole away again to Paris. When the Nazis took that city from him as well, Justus went underground, and so began a daring chapter…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 29, 2020

Nonfiction

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 ClapsJanuary 7, 2020

Nonfiction

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

To paraphrase Chuck Palahniuk, “People are always asking, did I know about Chuck Palahniuk.” Everyone does at this stage, at the very least from Fight Club, but for edgy kids who want to write edgy stories and didn’t grow up with Burroughs and Bukowski, this guy has always been the…

Jeff DaughertyJanuary 8, 2020

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 AlkonMay 1, 2019

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 ProulxApril 5, 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 HeinlMarch 13, 2019

Nonfiction

“Prophet of Freedom” Illuminates Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon and Schuster) by prize-winning historian and Yale Professor David Blight is based on nearly a lifetime of research as well as letters and private documentation to which no biographer has previously had access. It’s this revealing collection that helped shed new light on Douglass, particularly…

Just The Right Book PodcastNovember 16, 2018

Nonfiction

‘The Voice’ Star Blake Shelton Named People’s 2017 #SexiestManAlive

As lovers of all things romance, we can't help but to salivate over People Magazine's annual #SexiestManAlive cover story. People has been nominating each year's #SexiestManAlive since 1985, starting Mel Gibson. This year's winner is country singer Blake Shelton who said, "Ya'll must be running out of people" in that fluttery southern drawl that…

Maggie MeyersNovember 15, 2017

Nonfiction

‘A Private View’: Afshin Shahidi’s New Book Gives a Rare Glimpse into Prince’s Private Life

One of my favorite pictures of Prince is the cover photo of Afshin Shahidi’s book, Prince: A Private View, which was released today. One of the reasons I am so enamored of this picture is due to the striking contrast of black and white in Prince’s clothing against the simplistic…

Aisha K. StaggersOctober 24, 2017

Meet a Pillar of the Vegas Gambling Community in “Paul S. Endy Jr.: Las Vegas Gaming Legend”

The Heart of This Great American Love Story Beats On, Generation After Generation

Presidential Funny Business: Old Abe Had Plenty of Both Wisdom and Wit

The Flamboyant Life and Lasting Legacy of the Portrait Photographer to the Art World

The Magic of Musical Passion in “This Was Toscanini: The Maestro, My Father, and Me”

The Intriguing Literary Genius Philip Roth Comes to Light in a Brilliant New Biography

Hidden Figures Emerge in “Overnight Code”

Lessons on “The Art of Resistance” from a Legendary Freedom Fighter

Rachel Maddow: Traversing the Political Divide

Master of Subversive Fiction Chuck Palahniuk Asks Readers to “Consider This”

Chronicler of Political Power Brokers Tells How He Does It

An Insider’s Account of the Real Barbara Bush

The Woman Who Could Have Been the First in Space

“Prophet of Freedom” Illuminates Frederick Douglass

‘The Voice’ Star Blake Shelton Named People’s 2017 #SexiestManAlive

‘A Private View’: Afshin Shahidi’s New Book Gives a Rare Glimpse into Prince’s Private Life

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