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Nonfiction The First Lady of Fleet Street: The Life of Rachel Beer: Crusading Heiress and Newspaper Pioneer Eilat Negev and Yehuda Koren
Recommended Reading Book Cover of the Week: The Fish That Ate the Whale Posted by Naomi Firestone-TeeterIn June, Farrar, Straus and Giroux will publish Rich Cohen’s latest book: The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s… Naomi Firestone-Teeter February 21, 2012
Nonfiction Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb David E. Rowe and Robert Schulmann, eds.
Nonfiction Hollywood’s Celebrity Gangster: The Incredible Life and Times of Mickey Cohen Brad Lewis
Essay The Ghost Earlier this week, Leigh Stein revealed one of her early aspirations: to “Be Anne Frank.” She will be blogging here all week for Jewish Book Council and… Leigh Stein February 15, 2012
Visual Arts The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats Claudia J. Nahson with Maurice Berger and Emily Casden
Nonfiction Love Every Leaf: The Life of Landscape Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Kathy Stinson
Nonfiction The Life and Thought of Louis Lowy: Social Work Through the Holocaust Lorrie Greenhouse Gardella; Joachim Wieler, fwd.
