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Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolisby Mark Binelli As Detroit Goes So Goes The Nation
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BobReviews
2 days ago
Are we all doomed to Detroit’s fate? Is this what we can expect for the future? Will we need a person riding shotgun to travel in our automobiles in broad daylight? Will we take civic collapse as the ... More 
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His SlavesThe Truth Will Set You Free
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BobReviews
4 days ago
Why are the Founding Fathers such a touchy subject? Is it because we have all been indoctrinated with tales of cherry trees and kites? Is it a holdover from the Cold War? Has Americana become a ... More 
The Bluesby Elijah Wald Over Under Sideways Down
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BobReviews
on December 5, 2012
The more I learn about the blues, the less I know, (at least in comparison to what I thought I knew before). Back in "the day", (which for me was the mid-1970s up until the mid-1990s, my peak fan ... More 
Maybe you would like to consider 'Vietnam" A History' by Stanley Karnow. It came out in the 1980s, (when I read it), and it seemed to tie up a lot of ... More 
How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'n' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Musicby Elijah Wald Music Is Not Destroyed, It Is "Reclassified"
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BobReviews
on December 2, 2012
The title is designed to catch your attention. (It worked with me.) And while the author makes the case that the Beatles changed rock 'n' roll forever, this book is about much more than that. What I ... More 
Droodby Dan Simmons Foggy Victorian England At Its Best
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BobReviews
on November 27, 2012
It is hard to empathize with main character William Wilkie Collins in Dan Simmons ‘Drood’. But that is the author’s point. Set in the mid-to-late 1800s in Victorian England, and told in an ... More 
Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Storyby Jim Holt Just Where Did We Come From?
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BobReviews
on October 25, 2012
Why is there something instead of nothing? Why does the universe exist? How did we get here? Why is the human race in the position to figure this out? I am fairly new to the world of philosophy. It ... More 
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest JourneyTR & Candice Millard At Their Best
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BobReviews
on October 20, 2012
You have to ask yourself if Theodore Roosevelt had a death wish. On the trip down the “River of Doubt” in the Amazon, (which was funded by the American Museum of Natural History), two members of the ... More 
Cemetery John: The Undiscovered MasterMind Behind the Lindbergh Kidnappingby Robert Zorn, Sean Runnette (Narrator) Secrets of the Past
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BobReviews
on October 15, 2012
The Trial of the Century may have missed a few things. According to author Robert Zorn, convicted murderer Bruno Richard Hauptmann had a few accomplices in the kidnapping and murder of Charles ... More 
The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral ConscienceFrances Perkins-The Brain Behind The New Deal
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BobReviews
on October 12, 2012
Talk about your unsung hero. Frances Perkins, the woman responsible for many of the social programs we now take for granted, has only been a blip on the historical radar screen. But due to this fine ... More 
Death by China: Confronting the Dragon - A Global Call to ActionHorrors of the "One-World Economy"
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BobReviews
on October 9, 2012
The sense of déjà vu that overwhelmed me while reading this book brought the Japan-bashing days of the 1980s back into focus. You know the story, when the leaders of a nation-state successfully ... More
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