A Pocketful of History: Four Hundred Years of America — One State Quarter at a Time (2008) by Jim Noles takes the State Quarter Program as a launching point for an engaging look at the 50 United States and the symbols chosen to represent them. Often, Noles goes beyond simply telling the history of the [...]
Archive for August 15th, 2008
15 Aug
Book Review: New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg
Following up on Ric Burns’ New York, I read New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg (2007) edited by one of the stars of that series Marshall Berman and Brian Berger.
This collection of essays looks back with some nostalgia and some disgust at the City in the 70s, 80s, & 90s. For most of the [...]
15 Aug
Book Review: The Joke by Milan Kundera
For the first time, my Around the World for a Good Book selection is for a country that no longer exists. The Joke: A Novel of Czechoslovakia Today (1967, English translation 1969) is an fact a story of 50 years ago. Since the author Milan Kundera is Czech and the novel is set in Prague, [...]
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