The New York Review of Books

University for four years. Christina Baker Kline is the author of five novels, including the #1 New York Times bestselling Orphan Train. Her other novels include "Bird in Hand", "The Way Life Should Be", "Desire Lines" and "Sweet Water". In addition to her five novels, Kline has written five nonfiction books. She wrote and edited two…

http://www.alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org The website alexanderhamiltonexhibition.org was created by the New York Historical Society for the Alexander Hamilton Exhibition that ended in 2005. The site is still available and a good source for information on Alexander Hamilton. The site includes a virtual tour of the exhibition. It also highlights Hamilton’s experiences in New York and New Jersey and has a section for unpublished documents regarding Hamilton. The site has many different…

Native American. The only thing people can do for Iowa pollution problem is to protect the status quo. Corn Flakes were invented as an antidote to masturbation. What if the way of learning people went through was actually partially wrong? There’s a new method in teaching called flipped classroom that has attracted a lot of attention recently. In this method, students watch short video lectures before the class at home. Then they work on exercises, projects, or discussion in class. The idea of…

goal. Copious amounts of models develop eating disorders to stay thin, and the girls who look up to them develop their own, through Cheryl Diamond’s Model : a memoir we can see the hardships models face, the cultural impact of them, and through book reviews we can see what outsiders to the fashion world think of the thin beauties. There is a very long history of the fashion industry and the models who first made it popular. The glamour of fashion shows wasn't always present.…

An example of credible testimony are the two reviews about the novel. The first review is by Alex Flinn, New York Times bestselling author and the second review is by Julia Eccleshare, Love Reading 4 Kids. I chose the review by Alex Flinn because she is one of New York Times bestselling authors and thought people who have read her books, might be interested in Dance of Shadows because of the review she gave. Examples of glittering generalities are the two sentences of the…

and Limits of Forgiveness. New York: Schocken, 1976. The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness is a book written by Simon Wiesenthal. Simon Wiesenthal was an Austrian Nazi hunter and writer, he was also a Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor. As I looked through the library this book caught my eye, I believe the sunflowers on the front cover are the reason behind it. Then, as I read the front cover the words pulled me in to read a couple pages of the book. On the front cover…

were high, and so were the businessmen. Behind closed doors in the extravagant parties thrown were the bootleggers, gangsters, stockmen; all there to make a profit before the unbeknownst Great Depression came. Alongside the antics of the men were the new women; the flappers, who had short hair, smoked, drank and most importantly, were beginning to have rights. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 tragic love story, ‘The Great Gatsby’ opens a time portal that takes you back to the 1920’s and can make you…

the agency of the perpetrator. Instead, they look for a clear uncomplicated moral that describes the victim as untainted and the perpetrator as simply evil.” ( Mahmood Mamdani, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency,” London Review of Books Vol. 29, No. 5 (2007), Pg.4 ) Mamdani opposes the way we see categories as the perpetrator of violence and the victim of the violence. These categories do not take into consideration the people caught in the middle or the possibilities for…

Mornings on Horseback Book Review Mornings on Horseback is a book by David McCullough based on the life of Theodore Roosevelt. McCullough is well known for his numerous historical non-fiction books, and has won multiple awards for his writings. Within the book McCullough conveys Roosevelt’s early life within his family, the influences from his family, his connection with nature, his personal well-being, and his entrance into politics. Throughout the book, McCullough describes in detail the life…

Book Review HY1111 Eric Foner, Give me Liberty! An American History (Third Edition) (New York; London, W.W Norton & Company: 2011, 2008, 2005) Professor Eric Foners’ book ‘Give Me Liberty! An American History’ is aimed at students searching for a dictionary of history of the United States. The Book features knowledge that spans from the very first Americans to life in the states after September 11. It covers all aspects of American History…