Book Review
Possess the Air
by Joe Taylor
Taras Grescoe’s artful and detailed "Possess the Air" draws on letters, memoirs, and secondary sources to chronicle twenty years of resistance to Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. Set in Mussolini’s Rome, which lives and breathes...
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No Way but to Fight
by Joe Taylor
Andrew R. M. Smith’s comprehensive study of two-time heavyweight champion George Foreman, and of the sport of boxing during his long career, is "No Way but to Fight". Foreman, a poor middle school dropout, discovered his punch on the...
Book Review
Radio Active
by Joe Taylor
"Radio Active" is a glorious hodgepodge of snippets from the O’Shaughnessy files. Esteemed New York radio personality William O’Shaughnessy’s "Radio Active" is his fifth collection of interviews, tributes, endorsements, monologues,...
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The Siege of Sarajevo
by Joe Taylor
Blending personal experiences, letters, and news stories, Sanja Kulenovic’s memoir captures courage and resilience during the danger and displacement of Sarajevo in the 1990s. While honeymooning in Southern California in 1992, Sanja...
Book Review
Race and Football in America
by Joe Taylor
George Taliaferro was a multidimensional football player. An All-American and Hall of Famer, he achieved and inspired excellence. Dawn Knight, Taliaferro’s former student and longtime friend, saw that football was only one of...
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Haig's Coup
by Joe Taylor
Two-time Pulitzer Prize nominee Ray Locker’s second book about the Nixon White House is Haig’s Coup, an inside view of the besieged president’s final sixteen months in office as seen by his closest adviser, General Alexander Haig....
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Dakota in Exile
by Joe Taylor
In "Dakota in Exile", Linda M. Clemmons tells the little-known story of the Dakota from their perspective: how their men were executed and imprisoned while their women and children were sent to a distant, barren land. Clemmons examines...
Book Review
Man Mission
by Joe Taylor
Through its fun vacation scenes, the novel becomes a critique of commonplace definitions of manhood and a proposal of a healthier, more relational, and realistic model. Eytan Uliel’s novel "Man Mission" is a satisfying chronicle of...