Tom Palaima
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Death of a Robber Baron
H.W. Brands’ The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield is the first book in Anchor Books’ American Portraits Series, which [...] Full Story -
The Daily Fight
Lost Books of Texas Most of us never hold high political office. Neither did Jane McCallum until, as she was approaching 50, she served [...] Full Story -
War Without End
If President Lyndon B. Johnson hadn’t had firsthand experience with poverty and racism in Texas, he might never have come around to civil rights, [...] Full Story -
The Golden Football
In 1928, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine published an article by John R. Tunis critical of college football. At the time, Tunis was widely regarded [...] Full Story -
Hard Labor
In Catching Out: The Secret World of Day Laborers, Dick J. Reavis describes what life is like in a world most of us never [...] Full Story
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Review
By the time you finish Aaron Glantz’s The War Comes Home, you’ll understand that one war the Bush White House was winning during its [...] Full Story -
Review
Hurricane Katrina was the costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Most of us still have in our heads images of the flooding of New Orleans [...] Full Story -
Bomb’s Away
In a Ben Sargent editorial cartoon published in the Austin American-Statesman after the Nov. 26-29, 2008, Mumbai terrorist attacks, a heavyset man looks back [...] Full Story -
Bomb’s Away
In a Ben Sargent editorial cartoon published in the Austin American-Statesman after the Nov. 26-29, 2008, Mumbai terrorist attacks, a heavyset man looks back [...] Full Story -
Never Look Back
On December 29, 1916, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, a mostly self-educated 47-year-old Siberian peasant, mystic, and adviser to Czar Nicholas II and Czarina Alexandra, was [...] Full Story