In this barely 100 page volume, Roy Scranton draws on anthropology, geology, astronomy, the classics and contemporary environmental literature in coming to terms with what seems like the ultimate human dilemma. He recognizes that global warming poses a real, predictable, and inevitable...
Kevin McEneaney has managed to firmly place Hunter Thompson and his gonzo genre within the pantheon of American literature in a keen and incisive analysis of Thompson’s gallery of off-beat writings. The cult classic, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, made into a major motion picture...
Politicians have been running against corruption since politicians got into the governing business. Zephyr Teachout, congressional candidate and Fordham University law professor, has written a book on the subject that seems very much with us.
She begins by saying the founding fathers were...
There are numerous biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but Douglas Brinkley’s new biography Rightful Heritage is the first biography to focus on the crucial environmental heritage that FDR left our nation. The origin of that seed is rooted right here in Dutchess County where...
