Book Review
Book Review - The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan
“I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.”
This is a typical quote from the book of memoirs of the most enduring chairman of the Federal Reserve. It was an unlikely read for me. However, upon hearing an interview with Greenspan promoting the book, I was intrigued by his praise of Presidents Ford and Clinton in the same breath, as well as his obvious intellect. In the end, I found the book to be an enlightening and worthy read.
Bob Kerrey Reviews “The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation” by Philip Shenon
Philip Shenon’s “The Commission” is a well-researched and written account of the deliberations of the “9/11 Commission” which investigated the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Mr. Shenon was a reporter who covered the deliberations of the commission from its creation on November 27, 2002, through the August 21, 2004, expiration of the federal law that gave the commission the legal authority to do its work. He had a front-row seat on the political process that created the commission, the firestorms that often surrounded it, and the largely favorable response to the commission’s report, which was released on July 21, 2004.
I was a member of the commission. Reading Mr. Shenon’s book was both illuminating, because I discovered things I did not know, and disconcerting, because his view of our performance is not always favorable. I always find it much easier to feel good when somebody else’s work is criticized than I do when it is mine being examined.
Book Review - Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Review by Daniel G. Deffenbaugh
Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Richard Louv
Algonquin Books
Book Review - The Niobrara River: A River Running Through Time
The Niobrara: A River Running Through Time
Paul A. Johnsgard
University of Nebraska Press
Book Review - The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan
The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Company
Book Review - Hippes of the Religious Right by Preston Shires
Hippes of the Religious Right
Preston Shires
Baylor University Press
Book Review - Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way by Steven Wagner, Ph.D.
Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way
Stephen Wagner, Ph.D.
Northern Illinois University Press
Book Review - No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner by Robert Shrum
No Excuses: Concessions of a Serial Campaigner
Robert Shrum
Tantor Media
Book Review - In This We Are Native by Annick Smith
In This We Are Native
Annick Smith
Lyons Press
Book Review - Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail by Michael L. Tate
Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail
Michael L. Tate
University of Oklahoma Press
Book Review - Visions of Lincoln: Nebraska’s Capital City in the Present, Past and Future by Jim McKee
Visions of Lincoln: Nebraska’s Capital City in the Present, Past and Future
Jim McKee
Book Review - Ogallala Blue by William Ashworth
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains
William Ashworth
Book Review - The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri
The Patience of the Spider
Andrea Camilleri
Penguin Books
Book Review - Returning to Earth by Jim Harrison
Returning to Earth
Jim Harrison
Grove Press
Book Review - Firestorm by Marshall De Bruhl
Firestorm: Allied Airpower and the Destruction of Dresden
Marshall De Bruhl
Grove Press
