tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41925798537117733752024-02-20T05:08:42.104-05:00Off the Bookshelf by Amy O'LoughlinAn eclectic variety of book reviews, articles about writers and the writing life, and miscellaneous and timely narratives.Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.comBlogger72125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-76693586001611904942024-01-16T13:32:00.000-05:002024-01-16T14:40:01.663-05:00What Once Was<p><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: 1.125rem;">He is a cigarette smoker and has carried this habit for more than forty years. He's a talker, a teller of funny stories, and if he should laugh when recounting a story, he chokes, he wheezes, he coughs, and he is without breath. If he is sitting slouched and begins this cough-choking, he sits himself upright to try and breathe in any air he can get. In these moments, it's difficult to listen to him. The cough-choking is deep and thick and worrisome. He wears glasses, and he takes them off when gasping for air because his eyes are watering. He wipes away the moisture. When he is able to breathe again, he composes himself. There is a hint of embarrassment when these cough-choking attacks happen. He doesn't say so outright, but the shy look in his blue eyes and the small smirk of his kissable mouth acknowledge the experienced discomfort. He strokes his gray-white goatee and licks his lips. He resettles. And soon enough, in time, he reaches for another cigarette. He lights it. He sits with his thin legs crossed. And he smokes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: trebuchet;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span><span> </span>April 2023</span></span></p><div class="user-tools d-flex align-items-end flex-wrap" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 transparent; --tw-shadow: 0 0 transparent; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; align-items: flex-end; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin: 30px 0px 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;"><div class="btn-toolbar flex-grow-1" id="t-comments-tools" style="--tw-ring-color: rgba(59,130,246,0.5); 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiLIOm1NxOkeiQf8OLqdt64iWRi7IVk6BNpfV14JMPj3bvjekajiuKBsBBTfpIMcTpJnH2C3ZNqvcrV54hLmMUNt-0L7fruPYw1koiyM9b1B5UnKpjfkechI6XpIN8HBQeAieNUs6R8zxebHRZG-T48p2nKp6ZYLNsJ0ZjG1mt1UQo5LkJucI59-gQmPg/s300/apropos.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="203" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXiLIOm1NxOkeiQf8OLqdt64iWRi7IVk6BNpfV14JMPj3bvjekajiuKBsBBTfpIMcTpJnH2C3ZNqvcrV54hLmMUNt-0L7fruPYw1koiyM9b1B5UnKpjfkechI6XpIN8HBQeAieNUs6R8zxebHRZG-T48p2nKp6ZYLNsJ0ZjG1mt1UQo5LkJucI59-gQmPg/w271-h400/apropos.jpg" width="271" /></a></div>In <i>Apropos </i><i>of </i><i>Running</i>, Charles Moore chronicles his quest to become a world-class marathon runner and his insights on being a black man in a white-dominated sport.<br /><br /><p></p>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-37240535909754030772024-01-09T14:50:00.001-05:002024-01-16T15:07:08.654-05:00Read My Book Review of "Front Line Nursing Stories: Making a Difference: An Anthology from the 1940s to the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Marian Facciolo<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJRJeyU_98gJ8J6kZKuXeRYBSKNLbW2FF30OkPkpqhVZOjdxngjgnFuDwhWSOXzzqGPxAV6lJxmDjtJ39X3FoLUgP5EXizpudapfWRpygGmEiq-yOTvUnOqdlyb0n9s7xzRrL7sPkKDEpRyVUjYjgqxIwV6HZr1-uwfy_PW9VOaU033VhgVT0pANYpiMJ/s900/front%20line%20nursing%20stories.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmJRJeyU_98gJ8J6kZKuXeRYBSKNLbW2FF30OkPkpqhVZOjdxngjgnFuDwhWSOXzzqGPxAV6lJxmDjtJ39X3FoLUgP5EXizpudapfWRpygGmEiq-yOTvUnOqdlyb0n9s7xzRrL7sPkKDEpRyVUjYjgqxIwV6HZr1-uwfy_PW9VOaU033VhgVT0pANYpiMJ/w266-h400/front%20line%20nursing%20stories.jpg" width="266" /></a></div><span style="color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15.4px;">The personal essays gathered in <i>Front Line Nursing Stories </i>capture the compassion, expertise, and diligence that nurses exhibit to meet the demands of their profession.</span></span><br /><div><br /></div>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-83382706278006293652024-01-08T15:27:00.002-05:002024-01-16T15:34:16.374-05:00Read My Book Review of "How the Sea Came To Be (And All the Creatures In It)" by Jennifer Berne; Illustrated by Amanda Hall<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY6yEpfMzDjfi2PJWr1ohC3mnFUs6Xz_ytU5V3B4-qXOifcfD4IgE5m1uTYN0I0crRw-Rgx3O5f77UqRw3O9zmE75Gr-F40PT1SqYJbtogaSKUHV61qT_tpd_72Ur87dJEkJ44Y7ihIea0H4zTPaORU3bYwF110KibRUEAOQAS3HEucFHW48mMmGB7ZYY/s626/how%20the%20sea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="626" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhY6yEpfMzDjfi2PJWr1ohC3mnFUs6Xz_ytU5V3B4-qXOifcfD4IgE5m1uTYN0I0crRw-Rgx3O5f77UqRw3O9zmE75Gr-F40PT1SqYJbtogaSKUHV61qT_tpd_72Ur87dJEkJ44Y7ihIea0H4zTPaORU3bYwF110KibRUEAOQAS3HEucFHW48mMmGB7ZYY/w384-h400/how%20the%20sea.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Jennifer Berne’s rhyming picture book </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">How the Sea Came to Be</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> is an educational and concise explanation of how the ocean and its marine life formed.</span><p></p>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-58510063997857348232024-01-06T15:20:00.001-05:002024-01-16T15:24:49.232-05:00Read My Book Review of "Divining: A Memoir in Trees" by Maureen Dunphy<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfuHiDjsXzSDtQd4WHjx9LagDQRlwN_84oD7OAX45UqB4yxRWiZGvcLOLIzFRoLM19wT1QkXkd9wq0Wfr_AaLg0-qUuZYcaibu2-axVcirsYRHZg9xAZL0I5goPDyDOqcZkaePMECvG_hOyL9ipqokpgTfiu9S2H0bSV-fn7fK1ecrilvdQp6UvmSvYDd/s927/divining.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="600" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMfuHiDjsXzSDtQd4WHjx9LagDQRlwN_84oD7OAX45UqB4yxRWiZGvcLOLIzFRoLM19wT1QkXkd9wq0Wfr_AaLg0-qUuZYcaibu2-axVcirsYRHZg9xAZL0I5goPDyDOqcZkaePMECvG_hOyL9ipqokpgTfiu9S2H0bSV-fn7fK1ecrilvdQp6UvmSvYDd/w259-h400/divining.jpg" width="259" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Maureen Dunphy’s memoir-in-essays, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Divining</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, conveys a lifelong love of trees and the feelings of sanctuary that they provide.</span><p></p>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-18115435086772171252023-10-16T14:19:00.000-04:002024-01-16T14:48:35.711-05:00Read My Book Review of "A Labyrinth" by Michael J. Wilson<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ty5OT23dtWMQvWjMFp92AZqGiscDmB5tKpGzFD_CjtjMfRqmO9Kuc0zemkVxFg9F4c37bnvsluOvfs5rDzzc_9IdiKBOuI5PgdtkiBHN2dXGSH6dvDbMhyphenhyphen54gsPCL4MKzISlNJzErwZ6diCont8zTlR1gQOcOMxvMyhj9qhBUwgyIQz3NglgGc2i_waX/s602/labyrinth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="602" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2ty5OT23dtWMQvWjMFp92AZqGiscDmB5tKpGzFD_CjtjMfRqmO9Kuc0zemkVxFg9F4c37bnvsluOvfs5rDzzc_9IdiKBOuI5PgdtkiBHN2dXGSH6dvDbMhyphenhyphen54gsPCL4MKzISlNJzErwZ6diCont8zTlR1gQOcOMxvMyhj9qhBUwgyIQz3NglgGc2i_waX/s320/labyrinth.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Michael J. Wilson’s lyrical, pensive novella </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A Labyrinth</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> reimagines the Greek myths of Daedalus, King Minos, Queen Pasiphaë, and the labyrinth of the minotaur.</span><br /><br /><p></p><p></p>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-58130992593453630792022-10-31T16:28:00.005-04:002023-10-30T16:54:12.225-04:00Read my book review of "Now and Then: Two Stories and Two Essays" by Salah el Moncef<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2VKTQ6TObVEcPUiGCXwjoWCGJpXhS7uI36eU3noevbqs56e_bDWJ6LGoNu1FxokumiWQyjsyqY0tqjuMOoFelAL4eyoGfsNz7XXZHBscJxJQCdi8uSGwhyok6khvT8JTzZlBEZS8FG-W2oEd5kSnOZ0_K0l0hOMPLMnOWNMKT2uvEukjesgD26-VFzA" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="865" data-original-width="565" height="297" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg2VKTQ6TObVEcPUiGCXwjoWCGJpXhS7uI36eU3noevbqs56e_bDWJ6LGoNu1FxokumiWQyjsyqY0tqjuMOoFelAL4eyoGfsNz7XXZHBscJxJQCdi8uSGwhyok6khvT8JTzZlBEZS8FG-W2oEd5kSnOZ0_K0l0hOMPLMnOWNMKT2uvEukjesgD26-VFzA=w194-h297" width="194" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></p>Made up of four profound pieces, this<a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/now-and-then/" target="_blank"> literary collection</a> reimagines identity beyond one’s nation-state; it observes the discordance of the diaspora.</span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15.4px;"><br /></span></div>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-65008384571354122962022-10-31T15:21:00.021-04:002022-10-31T15:37:30.255-04:00An Interview with Ralph Blumenthal: Author of "The Believer: Alien Encounters, Hard Science, and the Passion of John Mack"<p><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9nIuI4Falrn5qSmNubaJlSZsmbQwQA5JQnnXaZ1t6iMfW4qjIBhbVCNa2WARC-9YTXEkTl65dd8omMxpYtSIRQD_mqpU4H3xO8eJ7eRIQNb2VVFnHhBCm0yt627RdwsszgsuLgOdbTPXgoumfs5vRsjODjPkCVFDKoih7874xZ_r3B45WTw5AamqOg/s1140/Ralph%20Blumenthal.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="1140" height="152" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ9nIuI4Falrn5qSmNubaJlSZsmbQwQA5JQnnXaZ1t6iMfW4qjIBhbVCNa2WARC-9YTXEkTl65dd8omMxpYtSIRQD_mqpU4H3xO8eJ7eRIQNb2VVFnHhBCm0yt627RdwsszgsuLgOdbTPXgoumfs5vRsjODjPkCVFDKoih7874xZ_r3B45WTw5AamqOg/s320/Ralph%20Blumenthal.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br /></span></div><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333; font-size: 14px;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">One of our favorite books of the March/April 2021 issue introduced us to John Mack, a brilliant author and top Harvard Medical School psychiatrist who inexplicably developed an obsession with alien abduction—and nearly lost his career because of it. In</span><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Believer</em><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">, Ralph Blumenthal chronicles this fascinating life story—Mack’s childhood in New York, founding the psychiatry department at Cambridge Hospital, a Pulitzer-winning biography of T.E. Lawrence, antinuclear activism—in addition to his wayward turn to using “hypnotic regression to unlock the suppressed memories of ‘experiencers’ of alien encounters,” in the words of Amy O’Loughlin in her</span><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;"> </span><a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-believer/" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration-style: dotted;">review for </a><em style="background-color: transparent; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-believer/" style="text-decoration-style: dotted;">Foreword</a></em><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #333333;">. </span></div></span></span></div><p></p><p><span face="news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 14px;">With an assist from High Road Books, we connected Ralph and Amy for the following Mack conversation. Be forewarned: you might become a </span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">believer</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. too.</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: news-gothic-std, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </i></p>Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-8255757205841545082014-08-02T15:01:00.003-04:002014-10-23T20:19:35.417-04:00Last Stand: A Review of "The Heart of Everything That Is"<em style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 0px; color: #666666; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://inthefray.org/2014/06/last-stand/" target="_blank">The Heart of Everything That Is</a></em><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 18px;"> tells the little-known story of Red Cloud, a ruthless Lakota chief who brought together the warring tribes of the Great Plains to fight the US government and halt its relentless westward expansion.</span><br />
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<br />Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-11843997324718413442014-06-26T18:16:00.000-04:002014-06-26T18:16:41.308-04:00Read my book review of "Being Dead in South Carolina" by Jacob White<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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To understand
Addams is to look to her writings, as Elshtain, a professor of social and
political ethics at the University of Chicago, does in Jane Addams. In them,
Addams expresses the “expansive notion she had of citizens and would-be
citizens” and her “complete devotion to civic life,” Elshtain says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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[Addams] was so clear about is what she calls ‘the grief of things as they
are’: life’s griefs and losses, things that could not be forestalled, that
could not be prevented. The distinction between that and certain injustices and
cruelties and violations of human life and human dignity that can be prevented
and that we need, as a society, to work to prevent. She’s marvelously
instructive on that.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Addams died of
cancer at age 74. She went to her death dedicated to the “American project.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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best, what it had promised, and what it might yet become,” Elshtain says.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“I think that
kind of confidence absent chauvinism is an extraordinary thing. And tied to
that is the deep sense of a purposeful life lived with conviction. I think
that’s just a wonderful gift. And I know that’s going to mark her as a remote
figure in the minds of many people. To
the extent it does, that’s sad. If we really think we can’t recapture that
notion of a purposeful life lived with civic ends in mind, if we really think
that’s gone, then I think a good bit of her vision of America, or any vision of
America at its best, is gone, too. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>(This interview was
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June 2002,Vol. 37 Issue 2, p66.)</i> <o:p></o:p></div>
Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-48063339428840447092013-09-06T20:15:00.000-04:002013-09-06T20:15:54.212-04:00Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life<div class="MsoNormal">
In honor of Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935), <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ow#ct=jane_addams_153rd_birthday-2023005&hl=en&oi=ddle&q=Jane+Addams">the
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<i>Jane Addams and the
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by Jean Bethke Elshtain<o:p></o:p></div>
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Jane Addams was once celebrated as one of America’s greatest
women and foremost public citizens. For years, however, this turn-of-the-century
pioneer of the settlement house movement, social reformer who influenced every
major social improvement between 1890 and 1925, and winner of the Nobel Peace
Prize (1931) has been pigeonholed in historical memory as mainly a social
worker. A limiting categorization, as Jean Bethke Elshtain asserts in her
profound and interpretive Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Using Addams’s
vast and vivid writings—she authored 12 books and more than 500 essays—Elshtain
constructs a life of extraordinary vision and accomplishment formed by Addams’s
incisive social theory convictions and lifelong practice of “sympathetic
understanding.” Elshtain also tracks in detailed, contextualized prose Addams’s
pilgrimage to cultural icon of international acclaim, a progression likened to
that of her hero, Abraham Lincoln. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Born in 1860 in
Cedarville, Illinois, Addams, a “morally earnest” schoolgirl, devoured George
Eliot’s literature and sought human experience by “ ‘drugging’ ” herself with
opium. Later in life her suffragism, pacifistic stance during World War I, and social
feminism, which held that “the centrality of family and children in women’s
lives”—whether women be married or, like Addams, unmarried—“was … a springboard
into wider civic life rather than an inhibition,” led to worldwide veneration
and vilification.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Addams’s
groundbreaking achievement as co-founder, with Ellen Gates Starr, of Hull-House
in 1889—a Chicago settlement that served as an indispensable communal,
cultural, and civic center to its mostly immigrant neighborhood—aimed at
shaping a democratic social culture, in which “strong citizens” were created
and the full potential of the human being was realized without hegemony and
with respect for diversity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As Elshtain
contends, Addams believed that egalitarian civic society was enriched and
lasting social reform was fostered when yearnings for “opportunity” and
“solidarity” were satisfied and citizens lived purposeful lives within the
community. To that end, Hull-House residents and community members availed
themselves of foreign-language interpretation services, the lending library,
theater, the “well-baby” clinic, public baths (Chicago’s first), and lectures
on art, science, and philosophy, and they found a “ ‘friendly roof’ ” for union
organizing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Elshtain’s
wide-ranging, psychologized rendering awakens readers to the “tough-minded”
progressive social thinker and time-and-again self-doubting Jane Addams.
Elshtain rekindles Addams’s diverse reputation and grants her her due.
Accordingly, a remarkable life is revealed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>(This book review was
originally published in</i> American History<i>,
June 2002,Vol. 37 Issue 2, p66.)</i><span style="background: #EBEBEB; color: #111111; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-92189083893085619512013-06-08T16:36:00.000-04:002013-06-08T16:36:53.396-04:00Nothing You See Is What It Seems: A Review of Amy Wilentz's "Farewell, Fred Voodoo"<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>In her deeply personal account of life in post-earthquake Haiti, journalist Amy Wilentz looks at how outsiders' distorted views of the country have misrepresented its culture and history and encumbered its progress.</b></span></div>
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Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-64778265964737742982013-06-07T17:18:00.000-04:002013-06-07T17:18:21.900-04:00Read my review of "Slouching Toward Sirte: NATO's War on Libya and Africa" by Maximilian Forte<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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In February, 2011, motivated by the
successful grassroots rebellions in Egypt and Tunisia, Libyans took to the
streets of Benghazi in a planned demonstration against Muammar Gaddafi and his 42-year rule.<o:p></o:p></div>
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In response to
the pleas of the international community to intervene militarily in a
humanitarian effort to stop genocide, mass violence, and crimes against
humanity, NATO began its<span style="background: white;"> military
intervention. </span></div>
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<span style="background: white;">As Maximilian Forte shows in this provocative and
incendiary book, NATO's undertaking was an action to exert political control in
the region. It was not an effort to save lives.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<br />Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-14255898371073701322013-04-13T14:05:00.000-04:002013-04-13T14:05:06.648-04:00Read my book review of "The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War" by Stephen Puleo<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of the
most stunning and provocative events in American history, the caning of US
Senator Charles Sumner by US Representative Preston Brooks convinced the
North and the South that they could no longer rationally discuss the sharp
differences of opinion regarding slavery. The gulf between them was
unbridgeable, and the polar opposite reactions from both sides were also clear
omens about the nation's future. The attack
transformed the slavery question from a political and intellectual debate to a
visceral maelstrom that pushed the country inexorably toward civil war. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-caning/" target="_blank"><i>The Caning: The Assault That Drove America to Civil War</i> by Stephen Puleo</a></span></div>
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<b><span style="background-color: white; color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">Boston Celtics' legend, Bob Cousy, appears on the cover of </span><em style="line-height: 13px;">Sports Illustrated</em><span style="line-height: 13px;">, the first time the NBA had been featured on the cover.</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">To learn more about Bob Cousy, o</span></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;">ne of the greatest playmakers and passers in NBA history, </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 13px;">read my interview with "The Houdini of the Hardwood":</span></span></span></b><br />
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Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-8934925573949627162012-11-01T14:40:00.000-04:002012-11-01T14:40:46.287-04:00Read my book revew of "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay" by Frank Partnoy<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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In <i>Wait</i>, Frank Partnoy examines our decision-making
habits and processes and offers compelling insight into the reasons why we act
and react differently in any given situation. He asks: Is procrastination a bad
thing? Are first impressions as reliable and accurate as we may think they are?
Are fast-food restaurants responsible for our frenzied American lifestyle? Partnoy's
conclusions are intriguing, and they will inspire you to stop and think—indeed,
to wait—before you proceed.</div>
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Frank Partnoy<span style="background-color: white;"> </span>is the George E. Barrett Professor
of Law and Finance and the director of the Center on Corporate and Securities
Law at the University of San Diego. He is one of the world's leading experts on
the complexities of modern finance and financial market regulation. Partnoy <span style="color: #515151;">has
given expert opinion about financial markets to Congress, regulators,
academics, and investors. He has written numerous opinion pieces
for <i>The New York Times </i>and
the <i>Financial Times</i>, and more
than two dozen scholarly articles published in academic journals, including <i>The Journal of Finance</i>.
He is the author of </span><i>F.I.A.S.C.O.:
Blood in the Water on Wall Street</i>; <i><span style="color: #515151; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Infectious Greed: How Deceit
and Risk Corrupted the Financial Market</span></i><span style="color: #515151;">, a leading corporate law
casebook; and<span class="apple-converted-space"> <i>The Match King: Ivar Kreuger, The Financial Genius Behind a Century of
Wall Street Scandals</i></span>, a book about the 1920s markets and Ivar Kreuger,
who many consider the father of modern financial schemes.</span></div>
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Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-4294940738465382872012-09-29T17:03:00.001-04:002012-09-29T17:03:47.386-04:00Read my book review of "Slow Democracy: Rediscovering Community, Bringing Decision Making Back Home" by Susan Clark and Woden Teachout<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
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"<i><a href="https://www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/slow-democracy/" target="_blank">Slow Democracy</a></i> is a book apart. Its courage permits
it to be honest. Its honesty compels us to think of community and democracy as
one—inseparable in concept as well as practice. Its vision commands us to make
good on our professed faith in each other by practicing collective action face-to-face.
Its hope is that we can learn to accept that properly understood, democracy
needs no adjectives, that the title of the book, while perfect for the authors' generation, becomes a redundancy for the future."<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Susan Clark</b></span> is a writer and facilitator focusing on
community sustainability and citizen participation. She is an award-winning
radio commentator and former talk show co-host. Her democratic activism has
earned her broad recognition, including the 2010 Vermont Secretary of State’s
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Clark </span></b>is the coauthor of <i>All Those In Favor:
Rediscovering the Secrets of Town Meeting and Community </i>(RavenMark, 2005). Her
work strengthening communities has included directing a community activists’
network and facilitating town visioning forums. She served as communication and
education director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council and Coordinator of
the University of Vermont’s Environmental Programs In Communities (EPIC)
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Clark </span></b>lives in Middlesex, Vermont, where she is chairs a
committee that encourages citizen involvement, and serves as town-meeting
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Woden Teachout</span></b> is an historian and cultural critic interested in the
development of American patriotic culture. She has taught at a
number of colleges and universities, including Harvard, as well as, Middlebury
College and Goddard College. Her most recent book, <i>Capture the Flag: A
Political History of American Patriotism</i> (Basic Books, 2009), was widely
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<b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Teachout </span></b>holds a PhD in the history of American
civilization from Harvard University. She lives in Middlesex, Vermont, and is a
professor of graduate studies at Union Institute and University.</div>
Amy O'Loughlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05308367287368469265noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4192579853711773375.post-69328548141678920532012-09-14T22:07:00.000-04:002012-09-15T12:16:40.431-04:00Bruce Springsteen at Fenway Park - August 15, 2012<br />
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