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Dan Lalande

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Charlie Chaplin vs. America by Scott Eyman
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Painstakingly researched exoneration of the great Chaplin, whose fuzzy politics and sexual tribulations made him a prime target for the keepers of the foofy, frightened Fifties. It's also the most accurate peeling yet, thanks to Eyman's fine-tooth ta ...more
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The Baseball 100 by Joe Posnanski
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A book to relish and revile - you'll lose yourself in the anecdotal portraitures of each player while you second-guess their subjective rankings (Joe DiMaggio at 56? Really?) Posnanski, as palpably passionate about the pastime as the personalities pr ...more
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The Baseball 100
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A book to relish and revile - you'll lose yourself in the anecdotal portraitures of each player while you second-guess their subjective rankings (Joe DiMaggio at 56? Really?) Posnanski, as palpably passionate about the pastime as the personalities pr ...more
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Charlie Chaplin vs. America by Scott Eyman
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Painstakingly researched exoneration of the great Chaplin, whose fuzzy politics and sexual tribulations made him a prime target for the keepers of the foofy, frightened Fifties. It's also the most accurate peeling yet, thanks to Eyman's fine-tooth ta ...more
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Her First Palestinian by Saeed Teebi
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Impressive debut by Teebi, a robust collection of short stories capturing the Palestinian-Canadian experience. Teebi's contention is that it is not a uniform identity, rather, a state in which resignation or reconciliation is a dangerous prospect. It ...more
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The Kingdom of Speech by Tom Wolfe
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Wolfe's last consideration, a bifurcated look at the much-debated origins of language: Darwin, who lumped it in with natural selection, vs. his detractors, then Chomsky, with his "language organ" defense and his particular dissidents. It's a deeply i ...more
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The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
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Wolfe, crown capturer of the electric tenor of his times, at work in the money-mad 80s. It was the revolutionary journalist's first foray into fiction, though an excuse, naturally, to play contemporary sociologist. Given that, the book is a literary ...more
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The Last Ride of the Pony Express by Will Grant
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"The history of the Pony Express is filled with gaps in the record, contradictory reports, and missing information, but the biggest unknown for me has always been the reality of it." Horseman-journalist Grant uncovers that mystery on a five-month, 2, ...more
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe by Jacob Mikanowski
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Mikanowski's Eastern Europe is a pluralistic polyglot, a kind of ad hoc peasants' paradise, till it becomes subject to every ism in world history: nationalism, Nazism, communism, socialism, capitalism. Each new landlord brings imprisonment, expulsion ...more
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