Atlantic County Library System

Nonfiction: What Do Presidents Need to Know?

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 10:27am

By JOSH CHAFETZ

Corey Brettschneider’s “The Oath and the Office” offers advice to presidents on their constitutional duties.

Fiction: Bombs and Bank Robberies: A Political Novel of the 1960s

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By ELSA DIXLER

Alice Mattison’s “Conscience” traces the damaging effect of a novel based on the real lives of three people involved in radical politics.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: The American Past: A History of Contradictions

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By ANDREW SULLIVAN

Jill Lepore’s “These Truths” shows both the successes and failures that have made the country what it is today.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: What’s the Matter With Wisconsin?

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By MICHAEL O’DONNELL

Dan Kaufman’s “The Fall of Wisconsin” traces how a state that was a liberal bastion came to vote for Donald Trump in 2016.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: The Key to Happiness Might Be as Simple as a Library or a Park

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By PETE BUTTIGIEG

Eric Klinenberg’s “Palaces for the People” explores the civic value of social infrastructure, those public spaces that allow for human connection.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: Wendell Willkie: The Forgotten Maker of History

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By LYNNE OLSON

David Levering Lewis’s “The Improbable Wendell Willkie” describes a political shooting star who left an outsize legacy.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Modern Political Ideas

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By JUSTIN VOGT

Three new books explore the concepts of liberalism, democracy and nationalism.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Children’s Books: Picture Books About Dreams and Dreamers of All Kinds

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By PAUL O. ZELINSKY

Immigrants, artists and inventors imagine liberation in gorgeous new books by Yuyi Morales, Il Sung Na, Juan Felipe Herrera and more.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Nonfiction: The True Grit of Four American Presidents

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By DAVID GREENBERG

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “Leadership in Turbulent Times” looks at Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

Crime: War Wounds: Crime Novels From All Kinds of Battlefields

Friday, September 14, 2018 - 5:00am

By MARILYN STASIO

Marilyn Stasio’s mystery roundup takes readers to World War I Britain and France, then dips into two psychological combat zones in modern America.

Source: NY Times Book Reviews

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