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   The American Dream has always included the idea of satisfying employment and upward mobility, but a new book by Deepak Singh sketches out a less rosy reality.

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Book Review: Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

Enduring Love falls as flat as the hot-air balloon that kills the heroic family doctor John Logan in a freak accident. Logan’s death triggers a maddeningly artificial construct that masquerades as a plausible story. But because the story is told within the highbrow medium of “Literary Fiction,” anything is possible. 


Book Review: Man’s Search for Meaning

Every time I read this book I learn some nuance I had not thought of before. The thinking person or the person who chooses to think on a deeper level will always find comfort and solace from the existential pain that is inherent in the human condition.  


Book Review: Sergeant Dickinson

Sergeant Dickinson brings home the horror of the Viet Nam War wrapped in a tidy, decorative package that reeks of napalm. Sergeant Dickinson, called Dixie, is a flawed hero so damaged by the carnage of battle that he has lost his capacity to be human. He is not a beast, an asshole, or a cowboy, as any one of these singular descriptions would suggest. He’s all three descriptors rolled into one shell of a former human being.

 


Book Review: True Believer by Eric Hoffer

Multiple critics have praised the book for a common sense approach that was born of the author’s experience as a working man who understood America and Life as few intellectuals can.


Book Review: The Hidden Globe

If you missed “The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World” when it first came out last year, delay no longer. This tour de force by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian provides a passport into on alternative reality world that is navigated regularly by the globe’s wealthiest individuals and corporations