Glenn C. Altschuler
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Review: ‘Carson the Magnificent’ takes a deep dive into talk show legend Johnny Carson’s life
Nonfiction: His comic instincts were impeccable but off-camera, life was not so sunny.
October 29, 2024
‘The Stadium’ may make us think of baseball and hot dogs but it’s also a source of inspiration and strife
NONFICTION: New book looks at the many ways we use huge public spaces.
August 13, 2024
A legend, an estrangement and a reconciliation in ‘Cornbread’ Harris bio, ‘Deeper Blues’
LOCAL NONFICTION: Andrea Swensson traces a career that’s well into its seventh decade.
August 5, 2024
Big names like Joan Didion and Carrie Fisher pop up in glittering memoir ‘The Friday Afternoon Club’
NONFICTION: Actor/producer Griffin Dunne (”After Hours”) tells tales of murder, sibling rivalry and redemption.
June 5, 2024
Biography details what ‘Rulebreaker’ Barbara Walters did to get to the top
NONFICTION: Susan Page follows books about Nancy Pelosi and Barbara Bush with one about the pioneering broadcaster.
April 16, 2024
‘3 Shades’ shows how Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans made the biggest jazz album ever
NONFICTION: James Kaplan’s book asks whether the success of “Kind of Blue” corresponded with the death of jazz.
February 27, 2024
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Review: 'Differ We Must' depicts a president — Abraham Lincoln — under pressure
NONFICTION: Steve Inskeep summons a pragmatic, moral politician who listened to, learned from and worked with his critics.
September 29, 2023
Review: The 'Queen of the Court' struggled to get what she was owed in Depression-era tennis
NONFICTION: An informative, more-dispiriting-than-inspiring biography of Alice Marble, largely forgotten tennis star of the 1920s and '30s.
August 10, 2023
Review: 'King: A Life' takes a fresh, unvarnished look at a civil rights icon
NONFICTION: A flaws-and-all examination of Martin Luther King Jr.'s critique of inequality and war.
May 12, 2023
Review: 'Koresh,' by Stephan Talty
NONFICTION: A biography of the charismatic leader of the Branch Davidians, and a riveting account of the ATF raid and FBI siege of their compound in Waco, Texas.
April 7, 2023
Review: 'Kennan: A Life Between Worlds,' by Frank Costigliola
NONFICTION: An informative and compelling biography of the architect of the U.S. policy of "containing" the Soviet Union.
January 20, 2023
Review: 'The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest 1800-1900,' by Jon K. Lauck
NONFICTION: Jon K. Lauck argues that the history of the Midwest reveals an advanced democratic society and refutes stereotypes about the region's repressive culture.
December 9, 2022
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