February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
More than 60 years after her death, the celebratory anarchist spirit of Emma Goldman continues to hold more resonance with young people storming the barricades of globalization than many contemporary political icons. Goldman, known during ... Read More »
History scholars Margaret Conrad and James Hiller bring a wide range of expertise to Atlantic Canada, the third volume in Oxford’s Illustrated History of Canada series. Atlantic Canada looks at Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
The searing stories of the Americans who went to Vietnam to fight and bleed and die are written in the novels and short stories of Tim O’Brien and in memoirs like Michael Herr’s Dispatches and ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Benedict Arnold = traitor. The equation is simple, well known, and largely unquestioned. A leading military commander for the American rebels in the 1776 revolution, Arnold later defected to the British and tarnished his name ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Sheila Munro, the eldest of three daughters, has struggled against low literary self-esteem, for it is not easy being the daughter of one of the world’s greatest living short story writers. Yet it was the ... Read More »
February 11, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Memoir & Biography
“Don’t you have any happy memories?” Ellen Stafford is asked by a psychiatrist with whom she is discussing her marriage. Apparently she doesn’t, for her memoir is an unrelieved chronicle of woes. These include poverty, ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
May 12Tom says the new chicks have Pasty Butt, a condition that requires cleaning. And since he squished his hand in between logs and the top of his index finger has gone black, it is ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography
Ray Lewis has quite a story to tell. The great-grandson of escaped slaves, Lewis was born in Hamilton in 1910. He went on to win a bronze track-and-field medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in ... Read More »
February 10, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography