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Arts & Culture Books
Dorothy M. BrownNovember 06, 2006

In Running Alone the distinguished Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McGregor Burns tracks almost a half-century of what he considers critically flawed American presidential leadership His starting point is John F Kennedy rsquo s success in the 1960 election in which he ran his campaign wit

Arts & Culture Books
Sally CunneenNovember 06, 2006

This memoir begins with Patricia Hampl rsquo s accidental viewing of the Matisse painting Woman Before an Aquarium which waylaid her on her way to the cafeteria of the Chicago Art Institute to meet a friend some 34 years ago She stood transfixed absorbing the portrait of a woman gazing at a goldf

Arts & Culture Books
Michael J. KerlinNovember 06, 2006

These days as I a citizen by right of birth of the United States and Ireland wheel my grandson Navid a citizen by right of birth of the United States and Iran through my local shopping mall I look about at people of all shades and shapes and combinations wishing a world of justice and harmon

Arts & Culture Books
Julie TrocchioNovember 06, 2006

To read A Balm for Gilead is to want author/friar/physician Daniel Sulmasy and his disciples to be your doctor, nurse or therapist. A practitioner with a deep sense of spirituality who considers healing an encounter with the divine will not blame us for our bad habits, will not be repulsed

Arts & Culture Books
Michael A. GalstonNovember 06, 2006

The Conservative Soul is a dense passionate argument for a simple thesis In the United States true conservatism has been hijacked by the forces of fundamentalism rendering the Republican Party increasingly unacceptable to principled conservatives In Andrew Sullivan rsquo s narrative fundamenta

Arts & Culture Books
Tom DeignanNovember 06, 2006

Given the literary scandal that more or less led Edna O rsquo Brien to flee Ireland following the publication of her Country Girls trilogy in the 1960 rsquo s it would have been understandable if she had spent the rest of her life bashing Ireland and writing books about noble outsiders persecuted b

The Word
Daniel J. HarringtonNovember 06, 2006

He central characters in Mark rsquo s Gospel are Jesus and the Twelve though a number of minor characters are spread throughout the entire narrative At the end of Chapter 10 however a series of lesser characters emerge who in contrast to the Twelve who become increasingly obtuse respond to J