Posts by Barbara Frederick
Promises to Keep by Joe Biden (2007)
I really like Joe Biden. Heck, I think most everybody likes Joe Biden. He’s…
Read MoreOne Summer by David Baldacci (2011)
David Baldacci is the only writer who could have gotten me to read this…
Read MoreLast Ape Standing by Chip Walter (2013)
Science moves very fast these days, so I appreciate those rare writers who can…
Read MoreThe Templar Salvation by Raymond Khoury (2010)
This is definitely a sequel, but unfortunately, I don’t remember all that much of…
Read More"What's God Got to Do With It?" by Robert Ingersoll; edited by Tim Page
I’ve heard Ingersoll’s name for many years, of course; one could hardly miss it…
Read More"The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander (2011)
A very difficult book for a white progressive freethinker to read, but an important…
Read MoreMovie: The Interview (2014)
Imagine my surprise when I found this controversial movie on Netflix! Of course I…
Read MoreThe Age of American Unreason by Susan Jacoby (2008)
Jacoby uses the term “intellectual” frequently, so it wasn’t long before I began to…
Read MoreThe Tao of Pooh, by Benjamin Hoff (1982)
I first read this when it was relatively new; still only a hardbound and…
Read MoreSchool for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis by Erika Mann (1938)
This is a 2014 Dover republication of Erika Mann’s book published in 1938. Since…
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