The New Jim Crow
Why has an academic book with a title that includes this mix—“Jim Crow,” “mass incarceration,” and “colorblindness”— resonated with the public? Clearly, Alexander has hit a nerve. Something profound is happening in American society.
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The longform book reviews on bookscover2cover combine a narrative, descriptive, and analytical style to persuade readers to read the book. The books are chosen for complexity, relevance, value, and style.
No Way Down
When you think about a life worth living, what comes to mind? Helping others in need? Giving your children your love and attention and rearing them to become generous and…
Once I Was A Debutante
As the author notes about her mother's biography: "It was very important to me to keep my mom’s voice alive; that was a promise I made to myself from the beginning. I didn’t want to edit her story in any way whatsoever. That was quite a task."
Revisiting Tennessee Williams
During the Great Recession, I didn’t have any spending money to go and buy new books or even used books for that matter, and I needed to read some good…
Empire of the Summer Moon
S. C. Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon is an historical narrative of heroes and legends set against the panorama of the American West, particularly the Texas frontier between the years 1836 and 1912.
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
In “Cinderella,” as told in the Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1974) first published in Germany in 1817 as “Aschenputtel,” Cinderella’s mother dies, her father remarries, and her two new stepsisters—“beautiful but black…
Winner Take All Politics
According to Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson, co-authors of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, economic inequality in the United States…
Cleopatra: A Life
Who was Cleopatra? The erotic queen of Egypt? “The wanton seductress” who consorted with the two most powerful Romans of her time—Julius Caesar and Mark Antony? The “insatiable, treacherous, blood-thirsty,…
The Tiger’s Wife
The Tiger’s Wife, the acclaimed novel by Téa Obreht, is not for the fainthearted. The Yugoslav Wars of the early to mid-1990s hover in the background, threatening to overtake the narrative.…
How Children Succeed
May 23, Editor’s Note: Paul Tough just released a new book, Helping Children Succeed, a “handbook to guide readers through the new science of success.” (Visit the author’s website for…