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Literature – Nonfiction

Nonfiction Literature Posts

William Makepeace Thackeray’s Book Of Snobs Updated To A Guide To Modern Snobbery

William Makepeace Thackeray’s Book Of Snobs Updated To A Guide To Modern Snobbery

April 19, 2017

Inspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D.…

Portrait Of Hillary Clinton Campaign As That Of A Titanic-Like Disaster

Portrait Of Hillary Clinton Campaign As That Of A Titanic-Like Disaster

April 18, 2017

It was never supposed to be this close. And of course she was supposed to win. How Hillary Clinton lost…

Exposé Challenges The Popular Image Of Edward Snowden As Hacker Turned Avenging Angel

Exposé Challenges The Popular Image Of Edward Snowden As Hacker Turned Avenging Angel

January 15, 2017

After details of American government surveillance were published in 2013, Edward Snowden, formerly a subcontracted IT analyst for the NSA,…

An Argument That Global Military Presence Remains Essential For American Foreign Policy

An Argument That Global Military Presence Remains Essential For American Foreign Policy

January 3, 2017

“Speak softly and carry a big stick” Theodore Roosevelt famously said in 1901, when the United States was emerging as…

Rasputin Biography That Will Change Our Understanding Of A Fascinating Figure

Rasputin Biography That Will Change Our Understanding Of A Fascinating Figure

December 30, 2016

A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. Numerous biographies,…

Book On Understanding Of Propaganda And Its Mechanisms

Book On Understanding Of Propaganda And Its Mechanisms

December 27, 2016

Our democracy today is fraught with political campaigns, lobbyists, liberal media, and Fox News commentators, all using language to influence…

Hilarious Send-Up Of Sex, Scandal, And The Golden Age Of Hollywood

Hilarious Send-Up Of Sex, Scandal, And The Golden Age Of Hollywood

December 26, 2016

In 1965, a young, up-and-coming illustrator by the name of Edward Sorel was living in a $97-a-month railroad flat on…

Queen Victoria Biography Reveals The Real Woman Behind The Myth

Queen Victoria Biography Reveals The Real Woman Behind The Myth

December 21, 2016

When Victoria was born, in 1819, the world was a very different place. Revolution would threaten many of Europe’s monarchies…

Field Guide To The Twenty-First Century, Written By One Of Its Most Celebrated Observers

Field Guide To The Twenty-First Century, Written By One Of Its Most Celebrated Observers

December 18, 2016

We all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in your workplace. You feel it when you talk…

Compelling, Radical Essay Collection On Art, Feminism, Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy

Compelling, Radical Essay Collection On Art, Feminism, Neuroscience, Psychology, Philosophy

December 17, 2016

Siri Hustvedt has always been fascinated by biology and how human perception works. She is a lover of art, the…

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