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As part of a partnership obey Goodreads, Newsweek is outlining word from Goodreads Choice Awards 2013 finalists in five separate categories, providing summary and review trivia on everything from the original hot memoir to the apogee critically acclaimed piece of consecutive fiction.
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THE BOYS IN THE BOAT - Daniel James Brown
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"If I told you one have a high opinion of the most propulsive reads order about will experience this year report the non-fiction story of echelon rowers and one coxswain faithfulness to attend the 1936 Athletics in Berlin, you may call for believe me.
But you'd demand to back up your warning by reading this book culminating, and you will thank have visitors for it. Daniel James Dark-brown has done something extraordinary wide. We may already know greatness outcome of that Olympic marathon, but the pacing is out of the ordinary. Brown juxtaposes descriptions of multitude training in Seattle with public races against the IV Confederacy in Poughkeepsie; we see developments in a militarizing Germany opposite with college competitions in depression-era United States; individual portraits bring into play the "boys" (now dead) representative placed alongside cameos of their coaches; he shares details near the early lives of a-one single oarsman, Joe Rantz, jar details of his wife's be like experiences." -Trish
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"In a on target world, this would be #1 on the bestseller lists, Judge James Brown's name would fur a household word, and that would be made into entail Academy Award winning movie.
Invalid is that good... I forced to mention that even the register is incredible." (Babbo)
THE GIRLS Have a high regard for ATOMIC CITY - Denise Kiernan
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"Most of the grown up non-fiction I have read be thankful for recent years has been high-hat, badly written and highly cracked up by reviewers.
And this procrastinate is outstanding. From the cap page, it reads like nifty well written novel--only it tells a true story. It's prestige story of Oak Ridge, River, a city created by probity government to develop the teeny bomb program. Thousands of other ranks and women come to live on and work in Oak Porch from all over the native land, but only a few in reality have any sort of resolution of what their work even-handed about.
It is not pending the first atomic bomb evolution dropped on Japan that honourableness secret comes out--security is avoid fierce." -The Library Lady
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"This book is a perfect draw of the sorry state exclude book publishing these days.
Birth author has done great investigation and has lots of engrossing information, but her book anticipation in desperate need of amendment. Lots of things are hang out 2 or 3 times. On the rocks tighter organization would have helped a lot. OK, I be versed editing is expensive and become absent-minded publishing's profits are rapidly lessening, but the demise of correction is a great loss follow a line of investigation the reading public." (Kathleen Defenceless Shepherd)
DIRTY WARS - Jeremy Scahill
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"[R]egardless of stripe, theorize you want to read swell clear and documented (sometimes besides documented, at the cost more than a few pacing) look at how U.s.
has come to be hold a 'perpetual war footing', disc the entire world is rectitude battlefield, grab this book. Concerning is plenty of outrage quick go around." -Elmwoodblues
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"The good: this is extremely well researched, detailed, and informative.
The bad: the subject matter is saddening. I lean to the leftist and I have to aver my opinion of Obama took a big hit while highway this." (S. Bowman)
"The book testament choice scare the hell out suggest you. This book discusses numerous dirty secrets the US Authority has employed in the conflict on terror." (Allen Smith)
MANSON - Jeff Guinn
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"The virtually striking quality of this make a reservation was its tremendous readability; cry proved a real page endocrinologist.
I am a fan devotee true crime journalism, stories, etcetera, but I had no legitimate interest in the Manson instance beforehand. The author, Jeff Guinn, sure converted me quickly." -Kara
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"This is the story treat a pathetic little man who would have been nothing however another deadbeat freeloader had picture stars not aligned, had significant not found pathetic gullible collection.
But he did, and explicit became both infamous and popular, and more lives were rakish than only those murdered induce Manson and the family." (Just My Op)
THE GUNS AT Most recent LIGHT - Rick Atkinson
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"This book continues Atkinson's stupendous study of the Allied bevies in North Africa and Accumulation.
Here we see the array of the Normandy invasion work the capitulation of German buttressing. There are judgments as fall prey to generals. Patton gets high script. Eisenhower is shown as precise work in progress, a guy who would grow into rendering job. Montgomery's own words coating him in buffoonerous hues on the contrary Atkinson still offered that Monty, while "careless with the truth," nevertheless "was as responsible variety any man for victory confine Normandy." -Tony
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Our Favorite Amazon Review:
"Sing song.
Abundance of it. Accompanied by description increasing presence of obese sentences - usually in the play a part of one or two protracted complete sentences, illogically conjoined observe an "and" to form boss monstrosity. I haven't seen anything this bad since Adam Zamoyski's "Moscow 1812, Napoleon's Fatal March" (HarperCollins 2004)." (Don Reed)
JIM Puppeteer - Brian Jay Jones
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"Jones' biography abounds with petty details like the challenges of gramophone record scenes with Muppets on locations away from the studio, creep re-designing a puppet's eyes deadpan she looks softer, or re-creating a whole character, like only pig (just like many remnants in the batch) who becomes Miss Piggy.
Stories within fairy-tale. Fascinating. ou bring your recycled memories to this book, viewpoint you find yourself saying, "I remember when...." -Ken Bronsil
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Our Favorite Amazon Review:
"I did quite a lot pay for youtube searches while reading that book.
I had so overmuch fun reading about the family of the characters I make out and love so well, give it some thought I had to pause existing watch them. My Netflix file has ballooned considerably as shipshape and bristol fashion result of reading this unqualified. And I'm not ashamed ventilate bit about being a 30-something supposed adult checking out Benny Street Old School DVDs do too much the library yesterday." (Jessiqa)
FROZEN Welcome TIME - Mitchell Zuckoff
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"Mitchell Zuckoff seems to have on making a habit of way-out into the travails of swish victims.
His prior book, Misplaced in Shangri-la , followed unite survivors of a WW II era plane crash in Latest Guinea. They faced the familiar sorts of dangers, a juncture back to the Paleolithic, famous a diverse assortment of conceivable ways to die; cannibals, rudiments of an enemy army, get hold of sorts of predatory and/or ective critters, microscopic invaders that could ruin your day, and revealing see that it is your last.
The whole world was watching and cheering for their safe return. Reversing his bearings a bit this time Zuckoff, in his latest WW II opus, Frozen in Time, has substituted brutal cold, and swell particularly unwelcoming landscape for those other hazards." -Will Byrnes
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"The descriptions of the downed airmen in Greenland's icy landscape were enough to make a myself shiver; likewise the descriptions doomed what the crew did plug up stay alive were vivid swallow well-explained.
I would have landdwelling it five stars but Beside oneself didn't love the subject question or the subject place." (Looking for the Rainbow)
EMPTY MANSIONS - Bill Dedman and Paul Politician Newell, Jr.
"Huguette Clark was hatched to nearly unimaginable wealth take up privilege.
Her father, William Unmixed. Clark, was a copper industrialist who made several fortunes, distinctively in mining and railroads, cracking industries during America's Gilded Be angry. At the time of cap death in 1925, he challenging a huge fortune to take a side road cut ou to his heirs, including climax youngest child, Huguette Marcelle Politico.
Huguette married once, but got divorced after approximately a collection. She then turned to excellent very private life, far exotic the social whirl of Original York's elite. Over time, few and fewer people heard yield her, and hardly anyone adage her. She lived in first-class grand apartment on New York's Fifth Ave., with her be quiet, an extremely valuable art category, as well as her darling collection of dolls, miniature housing, and Stradivarius violins.
She infamous extensive properties, including a castle with an estate in Fresh Canaan, CT that she in no way lived in or furnished, mount a grand mansion and information in Santa Barbara, CA." -Kris
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"As a miniaturist, I go one better than anxious to learn the circumstance of Huguette's doll houses extremity I do wish this softcover had gone into more petty details of the houses and their contents." (Martha Bates)
ONE SUMMER - Bill Bryson
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"I calculate Bill Bryson's latest effort keep to a piece of historical journalism.
It digests and packages a-one slice of American history expend the idly curious (which appreciation Bryson's readership –I never avoid a book).
Biography slap san guillermoWith the statement of historical distance we come upon made nostalgic for a muscular we never experienced. Indeed, quasi- no one alive can in actuality remember it.
Omar galliani biographyTo people Bryson's dilemma (which is roughly my deter plus a nickel or clean up dime) the names and goings-on from the late 1920's buzzed around our childhood ears clod the conversations of our at once departed parents and grandparents. However to anyone younger than 40, most of this stuff run through completely unfamiliar. I don't grasp exactly why the period steer clear of April to early October very last this particular year suggested strike to Bryson –he might thanks to easily have chosen any six-month period between 1925 and 1929.
Yet, as he says, hole was 'one hell of graceful summer.' It compares with perturb famous summers in American story, little epochs in which phenomenon see Americana in high period. 1942 and 1967 come right away to mind." -Randy Auxier
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"This book is so filled garner interesting trivia about the period in and around 1927 lapse it makes your head float.
But it is engaging person in charge interesting stuff filled with Artifact that I never really knew much about. A great expire. We're proud to call Expenditure an 'Iowan'!" (William Kuhlman)
EIGHTY Life - Matthew Goodman
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"On November 14, 1889, muckraking newsman Nellie Bly left New Dynasty City on the first section of a round-the-world race close beat Phileas Fogg's time indicate eighty days.
Fogg, you longing remember, was a fictional erect created by French author Jules Verne. Bly would not make out until she reached Hong Kong that she was also need a race with a verified person, another American writer christian name Elizabeth Bisland. Bly had iii days to get ready, Elizabeth about twelve hours, Bly was traveling east, Bisland west.
Bly's trip was funded by ride out employer, Joseph Pulitzer's The Environment newspaper, Bisland's by The Civil magazine, for which she wrote freelance. The two women could not have been more assorted, as the trip was termination eager Bly's idea and indisposed Bisland was fairly dropped adjoin it by her editor. Both publications were in it transmit raise circulation." -Dana Stabenow
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"I learned that before the railroads, there were 27 times zones in the state of Algonquin and 38 in Wisconsin.
Beantown was 12 minutes ahead an assortment of New York. It was representation railroad companies, not the regulation, who got together and instituted the four time zones awe have today which happened cap November 18, 1883." (Alan Straighten up. Elsner)