HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton

There was a lot that went on behind the scenes after Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2008 presidential election. As one of the superstars of the Democratic party, she’d been expected to breeze on in as the front runner for the election, but as we all know by now, the Obama campaign crushed her in

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

I spent part of the summer of 2012 reading — and falling deeply in love with — Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo. Talk about perfect timing: soon after I finished reading that book, The Black Count was released to great critical acclaim and went on to win the 2013 Pulitzer in the Biography

Stuck in the Middle with You: A Memoir of Parenting in Three Genders

What does it mean to be a father? A mother? As a transgender woman who was a father for ten years and has been a mother for eight years and counting, Jennifer Finney Boylan is in a unique position to examine these roles from both angles, as well as a “third gender,” a reference to

On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson

It’s impossible to think of Rachel Carson without thinking about Silent Spring, the book that helped launch the environmental movement. Published nearly fifty-one years ago, the book captured the nation’s attention at a time when nuclear fallout was a very real concern and pesticides were being used as in alarming amounts. Of particular concern was

Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power

In her engaging new book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power, Rachel Maddow thoughtfully and intelligently argues that the current state of US involvement in war is far from what the founding fathers of the country had in mind when they sat down to write the Constitution. Taking her arguments beyond partisan lines and