In DRIFT: The Unmooring of American Military Power (on sale March 27), Rachel Maddow makes the case that our national-security apparatus has gone through an amicable but still catastrophic divorce not just from American civilian life, but from American democracy. Civilian political power doesn’t fully direct or constrain our national security policy anymore. It’s unmoored; it makes its own way.
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Press Release: Drift by Rachel Maddow
Monday, March 26th, 2012Press Release: Brandwashed by Martin Lindstrom
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
From The New York Times bestselling author of Buyology, Martin Lindstrom, comes BRANDWASHED: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy (September 20, 2011; Crown Business), a shocking insider-account that exposes the very latest and most sophisticated techniques that even the most trusted companies are using to shape our buying behavior.
David King on His True-Crime Thriller Death in the City of Light
Friday, September 9th, 2011
“Death in the City of Light begins at 21 rue La Sueur in the heart of Paris’s fashionable 16th arrondissement. It is a March evening in 1944 when two police offers arrive at a townhouse after receiving complaints of a thick, black smoke emanating from the building. Upon entering, they discover a horrific scene – hands, feet, skulls, and bodies in various states of decomposition. Down in the basement they discover the source of the smoke: two coal stoves stuffed with charred remains. Within minutes the search is on for Marcel Petiot, the owner of the home . . . Here, author David King shares with Read It Forward how he stumbled upon this incredibly gripping true-crime thriller, which has already been compared to the likes of Eric Larson’s incredible narrative nonfiction.
Dr. Steve Perry’s Tips for a Better Education System
Thursday, August 25th, 2011
Dr. Steve Perry, author of Push Has Come to Shove, is the founder and principal of headline-making Capital Prep Magnet School, which sends all of its mostly low-income, minority students to four-year colleges. He is also the chief contributor to CNN on education issues. Capital Prep has been visited by experts from around the world to study the magic taking place there! Today we’ve asked Dr. Perry to share with us what he thinks can make a difference in the education system and what he’s doing at his school. Let us know what you think and what’s going on at your kids’ schools!
Lucia Greenhouse’s Journey Out of Christian Science
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
“In the back of my mind,” writes Lucia Greenhouse, author of fathermothergod, “was a little boy I didn’t know named Ian Lundman. In 1989, three years after my mother died, Ian Lundman died of untreated juvenile diabetes. His mother had been a Christian Scientist. When Ian became ill, his mother called a Christian Science practitioner (it could have been my father, but wasn’t) instead of a doctor. A Christian Science nurse sat beside this little boy as he lay dying of something that insulin would have successfully treated.” RIFers! In a book group? Check out the end of this post for a special offer for your group.
Geoffrey Gray on SKYJACK: The Hunt for D.B. Cooper
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
“Who was he?” asks Geoffrey Gray, author ofSkyjack. “To know D.B. Cooper was such a man, and he had a name other than his alias Dan Cooper, and a family, maybe a sister or brother, a job, and a reason to commit the only unsolved hijacking in our time, and that I might have the ability to determine once and for all who he was became the ingredients for an obsession. How else to explain the three days I spent in the basement of the Rutgers University library, flipping through year backs from postwar years ’46, ’47, ’48, and ’49, looking for faces on the track team that matched an FBI sketch that might not even look like Cooper himself?”
Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts Sparks Book Club Discussion
Wednesday, May 18th, 2011“There were many issues related to Hitler’s rise that we were unaware of,” says Laurie of the Ancora Imparo book group after reading In the Garden of Beasts. “The opinions of those advising Dodd (did the government really not care?); the U.S. government being more concerned with getting its money from WWI than with what was happening at the time; the isolationist movement; immigration quotas; suicides during this time; and Dodd’s foresight in regards to Hitler. These issues sparked many long discussions in our group.”
John Prendergast on Mentoring Boys in Unlikely Brothers
Thursday, May 12th, 2011
“At first I wanted the book to be about Michael,” admits John Prendergast, “and I’d just be a supporting actor. But as we got into it, I realized I had to explain WHY I cared enough about Michael and his brothers to become their Big Brother. And once I started asking those internal questions, the answers took me deeper and deeper into painful and often embarrassing spaces. But the more I ‘discovered’ about myself and my own history, the more determined I was to tell the whole story, no matter what it revealed.”
Book Group Reacts to Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts
Wednesday, May 11th, 2011Debby’s book group – the Temple Har Shalom Evening Book Group from Warren, NJ – met recently and had a lively discussion of In the Garden of Beasts. “As a group of Jewish women,” Debby shared with RIF, “we were interested in the Jewish issues that came up throughout the book, including the anti-Semitism of some U.S. government officials – and perhaps the Dodds themselves – as well as the often-asked question of what could have been done to stop Hitler, if anything.”
Fire Season by Philip Connors: a Tattered Cover Book Store Review
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011“In Fire Season,” says Tattered Cover bookseller Jackie Blem, “Connors puts forth the idea, slowly being adopted by the Fire Service, that fire is necessary to the health of a forest. It’s nature’s clean-up-and-renewal plan: old growth gets cleared out and fresh growth can begin under clear skies.”
