Reviews

Social Security and Frances Perkins: Trump doesn’t get it by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron’s own blog. Becoming Madame Secretary by Stephanie Dray is a piece of historical fiction about Frances Perkins, named by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to be the Secretary of Labor, the first woman elevated to a cabinet position and the longest service Labor…

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A loving memorial to Journalist/author Tony Horowitz by Marjorie Arons-Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons-Barron own blog. Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks is a perfect book for any reader who has loved Brooks’s novel Horse, or Caleb’s Crossing, March, or The Secret Chord. Her husband, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Tony Horowitz (Confederates in the Attic, Spying on the South, Baghdad without a Map)…

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Historical fiction that expands our minds and feeds our senses by Marjorie Arons Barron

The entry below is being cross posted from Marjorie Arons Barron’s own blog. This Strange Eventful History by Claire Messud is a fictional drama based on the author’s own multi-generational family, covering seven decades of family history and moving from Salonica in Greece, to French (colonial) Algeria to France, Switzerland, Brazil, Canada,…

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Book Review Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris by Jack Kerouac. Grove Atlantic (2023), 120 pages, $16 (softcover) Reviewed by David Daniel Seventy years after it started, the Beat Movement continues to hold considerable cultural fascination. Nurtured by its origin-story of Columbia University friendships followed by the famed Six Gallery Reading and the San Francisco…

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