The New York Review of Books

The Voice of Big-Time Sports

March 22, 2012

Howard Cosell: The Man, The Myth, and the Transformation of American Sports by Mark Ribowsky

The New New Orleans

March 24, 2011

If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise a film directed by Spike Lee

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts a film directed by Spike Lee

Race a film directed by Katherine Cecil

Trouble the Water a film directed by Tia Lessin and Carl Deal

Charm City, USA

September 30, 2010

Treme a television series created by David Simon and Eric Overmyer

Can Populism Be Popular?

November 16, 2000

The Missing Middle: Working Families and the Future of American Social Policy by Theda Skocpol

The Paradox of American Democracy: Elites, Special Interests, and the Betrayal of Public Trust by John B. Judis

‘Affirmative Race Law’

September 24, 1998

I’d Walk a Mile for a Fee

June 25, 1998

Cornered: Big Tobacco at the Bar of Justice by Peter Pringle

Not a Judge

April 9, 1998

Justice for Blacks?

March 5, 1998

Race, Crime, and the Law by Randall Kennedy

Search and Destroy: African-American Males in the Criminal Justice System by Jerome G. Miller

Malign Neglect—Race, Crime, and Punishment in America by Michael Tonry

White Liberals, Black Problems

March 6, 1997

High in the Lower Depths

December 19, 1996

Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America by Leon Dash

An Attack in Atlanta

September 19, 1996

The Temple Bombing by Melissa Fay Greene

Mysteries of the Middle Class

February 3, 1994

Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream by Katherine S. Newman

Silent Depression: The Fate of the American Dream by Wallace G. Peterson

The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz

The Good Society by Robert Bellah, by Richard Madsen, by William M. Sullivan, by Ann Swidler, by Steven M. Tipton

Rising in the West: The True Story of an ‘Okie’ Family from the Great Depression Through the Reagan Years by Dan Morgan

The Not So Great Dictator

May 28, 1992

The Kingfish and His Realm: The Life and Times of Huey P. Long by William Ivy Hair

Underachiever

June 27, 1991

Consequences: A Personal and Political Memoir by John G. Tower

Downward Mobility

June 27, 1991

That’s Earl, Folks!

February 14, 1991

Earl K. Long: The Saga of Uncle Earl and Louisiana Politics by Michael L. Kurtz, by Morgan D. Peoples

The Fall of Jim Wright: An Exchange

October 11, 1990

The Fall of Jim Wright

May 17, 1990

The Ambition and the Power by John M. Barry

Reflections of a Public Man by Jim Wright

To Kill a King: The True Story of the Political Murder of Speaker Jim Wright, the Most Powerful Man in Congress by George Mair

Whistling in the Pentagon

October 26, 1989

The Pentagonists: An Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending by A. Ernest Fitzgerald

New Weapons, Old Politics: America’s Military Procurement Muddle by Thomas L. McNaugher

Confidence Boy

March 30, 1989

The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle by Richard F. Fenno Jr.

Sallie Bingham’s Philanthropy

July 21, 1988

The Best Years of Their Lives

June 30, 1988

Speaking Out: The Reagan Presidency from Inside the White House by Larry Speakes, by Robert Pack

On the Outside Looking In by Michael Reagan, by Joe Hyams

Revolution by Martin Anderson

The Binghams

June 16, 1988

Breaking Up

April 28, 1988

House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville by Marie Brenner

The Binghams of Louisville: The Dark History Behind One of America’s Great Fortunes by David Leon Chandler, with Mary Voelz Chandler

Was It Archer City?

October 22, 1987

Chance Missed

July 16, 1987

Best Intentions: The Education and Killing of Edmund Perry by Robert Sam Anson

When Reagan Was Reagan

January 15, 1987

Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob by Dan E. Moldea

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich