‘Red Summer: The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America’ by Cameron McWhirter
As World War I drew to a close in late 1918, the noted black author and activist James Weldon Johnson posed the issue that was on the minds of many...
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“Worm” raises worry of disaster on the Internet, often in an over-the-top manner
Most everyone with a keyboard and Internet connection has been at the receiving end of one, or a thousand, attempted email scams. Many also have been victims of viruses that...
‘Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America’ by Adam Winkler
In recent decades, gun rights and gun control have been high on the list of issues in the cultural war sharply dividing Americans. Gun control's passionate proponents and opponents clash...
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt” by Alan Brinkley
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt" By Alan Brinkley Oxford University Press, $12.95, 129 pages FDR At a time of crisis in the American economy, one critic of federal programs charges the administration...
“Franklin Delano Roosevelt” by Alan Brinkley
"Franklin Delano Roosevelt" By Alan Brinkley Oxford University Press, $12.95, 129 pages FDR At a time of crisis in the American economy, one critic of federal programs charges the administration...
Polarizing figure
By Eric Arnesen Few figures in African-American history are as controversial among their contemporaries or later historians as Marcus Garvey. During and after World War I, the Jamaican-born immigrant to...
WINNERS OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZES
By Art Winslow The first question a critic faces in encountering a book is one that occurs to any reader: Is this worth my time? Will it inform me, move...
A selection of books for Harvard’s president
Harvard University President Lawrence Summers has been on the hot seat since saying in January that, based upon "a fair amount of reading the literature," he thought one of the...
JUMPING THE GUN
The April 21 columns by Mike Royko and Georgie Anne Geyer that jump to the premature and unsubstantiated conclusion that the Oklahoma City bombing was perpetrated by foreign terrorists are...