Book Review: Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter Nonfiction History/Biography: Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, Stephen L. Carter Stephen L. Carter is a novelist and a law professor at Yale. That […]
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Book Review: Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College, Roger L. Williams
Book Review: Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College, Roger L. Williams Nonfiction:Evan Pugh’s Penn State: America’s Model Agricultural College, Roger L. Williams Evan Pugh never went to college as an undergraduate, but earned a doctorate in chemistry. He never served in political office, but was a force behind the passing of the land-grant bill […]
Book Review: Tulipomania, Mike Dash
Book Review: Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, Mike Dash Nonfiction History: Tulipomania: The Story of the World’s Most Coveted Flower & the Extraordinary Passions It Aroused, Mike Dash What could be more “spring” than the tulip? Sprouting up through the snows of March and April, the […]