Books & Media Reviews
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Lamar, his sons and some other adolescent boys from their Milwaukee neighborhood are sitting around, playing cards and smoking blunts, when there is a loud and confident knock on the door, which could be “a landlord’s knock, or a sheriff’s.” Mercifully it is only Colin, a young white man fro...
Reviewed By: Barbara Erenreich
World Hunger: 10 Myths
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Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
In the late 1950s, Robert Putnam, the distinguished social scientist whose 'Bowling Alone' (2000) has become one of the most influential books of our time, lost his campaign for the presidency of his high school class in Port Clinton, Ohio. The victor was one of the few African Americans in the scho...
Reviewed By: Alan Wolfe
Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession
“Something bad has been creeping up the occupational ladder,” warns Barbara Garson, author of Down the Up Escalator: How the 99 Percent Live in the Great Recession. The author sees a broad transformation happening, and through her interviews with average Americans, is able to help us see the Gre...
Reviewed By: Blair Dudik
The Good Lie (movie)
October 16, 2014 The Good Lie is not merely a great movie, it’s also a beautiful movie. What can you say about a movie where the scenes depicted in the closing credits are more powerful than most whole movies from the last decade? The Good Lie, released in October, 2014 in the Unite...
Reviewed By: Steve Hansch
Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development
The work of agricultural researchers and development workers in Africa has the potential to significantly improve the lives of the poor. But that potential can only be realized with easy access to high-quality data and information. The Atlas of African Agriculture Research & Development highligh...
Reviewed By: International Food Policy Research Institute
Good Food: Grounded Practical Theory
ATLANTA — Emory University’s Jennifer Ayres knows good food. For her, it’s not just about the taste and presentation but rather the item’s history, how it was produced and distributed....
Reviewed By: the General Board of Church and Society of the United Methodist Church
Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid and NGOs
If they knew him at all, the world knew Nigerian Oronto Douglas as the former attorney for the writer, playwright and Ogoni human rights activist Ken Saro Wiwa. Despite Oronto's and even President Bill Clinton's best effort, Ken was framed and hanged in 1995 together with 8 other Ogoni men who dared...
Reviewed By: Beverly Bell
Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain
“An overseas empire produces a vast sea of paper,” John Darwin writes. That sea — wide, deep and often treacherous — is what remains of the British Empire for historians to trawl, though few attempt to chart the whole of it in one relatively compact volume. Darwin managed something similar w...
Reviewed By: Alex von Tunzelmann
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