John T. Slania
Content by John T. Slania
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What do Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Nicole Kidman, Katie Holmes and Kirstie Alley have in common? Yes, they are all celebrities.
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A Bittersweet Season is a cautionary tale for every generation. It is a story about aging, told through the eyes of author Jane Gross as she watches her mother grow old.
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Richard Whitmire is a longtime education reporter and editorial writer who has chronicled a critical shift in the national education debate: While it was once presumed that girls were falling behin
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A son always strives to step out of the shadow of his father. In Benjamin Busch’s case, his father, Frederick Busch, cast a very long shadow.
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<b>A former president's plan for peace in the Middle East</b> Peace in the Middle East has been an unreachable goal for centuries, confounding a long line of political, military and rel
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When you read Leonardo and The Last Supper by Ross King, you can’t help but think of Dan Brown’s
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David Finch knew his marriage needed saving. He just didn’t know why—or how.
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Save for our popular culture and our fast food, there is little that the United States exports anymore. But move over Miley, Madonna and McDonald’s: America’s newest export is madness.
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In a literary marketplace flooded with memoirs, I approached the reading of The Memory Palace with apprehension.
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Buddy Levy’s River of Darkness is brimming with mystery, adventure, murder, hidden treasure and naked women. That’s a lot to tackle in a work of nonfiction.
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It would seem a daunting task to write an entire book based on a single photograph, but author Louis P. Masur is equal to the challenge in his latest work, The Soiling of Old Glory.
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<b>America's new gilded age</b> Size really matters here: the square footage of your mansion; the length of your yacht; the number of seats on your private plane; and most importantly,
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When I was a newspaper editor, I found it fascinating that stories about animals would often elicit greater emotional responses from readers than articles about humans.
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The romanticized version of the Civil War has noble Southerners united in a battle to preserve states’ rights and a genteel way of life.
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Google is little more than a decade old, but look at the impact it has already had on our lives.
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Only Simon Winchester, the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa, would have the tenacity and the talent to tackle a biography of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Journalist Tom Vanderbilt has made a career out of writing about topics from the mundane to the obscure, including sneakers, Quonset huts and nuclear fallout shelters.
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Computer software magnate Bill Gates may be refining the art of monopoly as we enter the next millennium, but it was John D. Rockefeller who perfected the practice more than a century ago.
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Some notable National Enquirer headlines include “500 Ft.
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American schoolchildren are taught that the nation’s first transcontinental railroad was completed when the golden spike was driven on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah.
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For would-be inventors aspiring to follow in Edison's footsteps, there is From Edison to iPod. Written by Frederick W. Mostert and Lawrence E.
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One modern-day entrepreneur who has heeded this advice is Daymond John, creator of FUBU, the young, urban male fashion line.
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With his close-cropped hair and three-day stubble, Nathan Wolfe looks every bit the warrior on the front line of a crucial battle.
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When I picture the late Hunter S. Thompson, it is not a photograph I see, but a caricature of him in a floppy hat and aviator sunglasses, carrying an elegant cigarette holder.
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He had me at “Shazam!” Grant Morrison, the comic book writer and author of Supergods, rubbed the magic lantern of my memories and re-ignited my lifelong love affair wit
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15 Stars is more than just a clever book title. It represents the collective careers of three five-star generals: Douglas MacArthur, George Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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The personal adversity Halima Bashir encounters during her young life makes Tears of the Desert an absorbing memoir.
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After exploring the dynamics of social change in The Tipping Point, and decision-making in Blink, Malcolm Gladwell turns to the subject of success in his new book, Outlier
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Seventeenth-century Europe is characterized by its contradictions.
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Join Anthony Swofford on his journey toward true manhood.
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In an early chapter of Eating the Dinosaur, author Chuck Klosterman ruminates on whether he has a favorite guitarist.
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A pivotal moment in Immortal Bird occurs when the protagonist, adolescent Damon Weber, is playing a pick-up game of soccer with his family.
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Reza War + Peace: a Photographer's Journey is a look at the human impact of war through the eyes of the renowned photojournalist Reza Deghati, known by his first name.
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Lev and Svetlana Mishchenko are proof that love can conquer all, even war, imprisonment and torture.
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The biblical passage, “You are dust, and to dust you shall return,” is a poignant reminder of our fragile place in the world.
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When we consider the concept of immortality, we often think of famous people like Ponce de Leon searching for the Fountain of Youth, or the late baseball legend Ted Williams, who asked that his bod
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Artist, writer and musician Mira Bartok charts her talented mother’s battle with schizophrenia in her new memoir, The Memory Palace [
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Most journalists strive to write the “definitive piece,” an article so thoroughly researched and reported that it becomes the standard for a particular subject.
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At the time of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, New Orleans, like many large cities in the U.S., had been mired for years in a school system broken by financial woes, inner-city crime, student discipline
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Water and oil: two valuable natural resources in Iraq. They are elements that have led to civil war and foreign invasion over the centuries, defining the fractious history of that country.
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From our archives: Remembering 9/11/2001
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Sugarcane Academy begins as the tale of a one-room schoolhouse created to educate children who were forced to flee as Hurricane Katrina approached.
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Hollywood surely will be calling for the movie rights: The Mark Inside is a natural for an adaptation to the big screen.
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It is impossible to read The Murder of Helen Jewett and not be reminded of the O.
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This is Robert D. Kaplan's vision of America's future: a collection of city-states where political power and decision making are concentrated locally.
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Africans in America closes with the culmination of the Civil War.
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Recent accounts of human suffering in Kosovo serve as a sufficient primer for a book like Crimes of War.
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John Naisbitt first developed the concept of high tech, high touch in his 1982 bestseller Megatrends. He theorized that in a world of technology, people long for personal, human contact.
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There have been authors before Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor who have written admirable books about the late Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley.
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The gritty side of black urban life has been portrayed so often in literature that it has become its own genre: street lit.
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Most of us are hot-wired by email, social media and smartphones. So what do we do when we find the last human beings on earth untouched by civilization? We try to make contact with them.
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From the first nationally broadcast presidential debate in 1960, television has changed the dynamics of elections. Those who listened to that debate on the radio felt that Richard M.
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The pace of Down Around Midnight builds quickly, as author Robert Sabbag describes being a passenger on a small commercial airliner that crashes in the woods on Cape Cod.
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He was a Native American warrior known as Tecumseh.
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By all appearances, Rod Dreher had a wonderful life.
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The Price of Stones has all the markings of a Greg Mortenson knockoff.
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The Count of Monte Cristo is a classic tale of betrayal and revenge, penned by the renowned 19th-century author Alexandre Dumas.
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President Dwight D. Eisenhower is widely credited with being the driving force behind the building of the nation’s interstate highway system.
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What do an accused killer and an accomplished writer have in common? More than one would suspect, as revealed in the engaging page-turner True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa.
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William Faulkner wrote: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”
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Bill Patten's family acquaintances were some of the most powerful figures of the 20th century, names like Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy.
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Since elementary school, we’ve been told that the American Revolution was the work of such luminaries as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
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The ancient Chinese tradition of foot binding involved using cloth to tightly wrap a young girl’s feet so that they would fit into three-inch slippers, because a Chinese woman’s beauty
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Readers, prepare for a quick takeoff with Lynn Spencer's Touching History, a new account of the experiences of pilots, air traffic controllers and military commanders on 9/11.
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What's Next: The Experts' Guide is the perfect title for Jane Buckingham's book forecasting the future because the reader never quite knows what topic will be tackled next.
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I’m a Chicago guy. Been one all my life. So I thought I knew everything there is to know about the “Chicago Way.” You know, using hustle and muscle to get power and money.
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One of the original inventor/entrepreneurs was Thomas Edison, who developed electric light, the phonograph and the first motion picture camera.
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In the opening chapter of The Fear, author Peter Godwin writes with great excitement, “I am on my way home to Zimbabwe, to dance on Robert Mugabe’s political grave.”
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