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Glenn Altschuler is the Vice President for University Relations, the Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies, and a Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University.

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Reviews

2009

• Too Much Happiness
  by Alice Munro, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 22, 2009
• The Humbling
  by Philip Roth, The Jerusalem Post, November 13, 2009
• Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker
  by James McManus, The Boston Globe, November 8, 2009
• Mike Bloomberg: Money, Power, Politics
  by Joyce Purnick, The Jerusalem Post, November 5, 2009
• Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression
  by Morris Dickstein, Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
• The Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History
  by Robert M. Edsel, Tulsa World, November 1, 2009
• City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and '70s
  by Edmund White, The Huffington Post, October 22, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
  by Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, The Portland Oregonian, October 17, 2009
• When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
  by Gail Collins, NPR, October 14, 2009
• Pilgrims: A Wobegon Romance
  by Garrison Keillor, Tulsa World, October 11, 2009
• American Passage: The History of Ellis Island
  by Vincent J. Cannato, The Jerusalem Post, October 9, 2009
• Our Boys: A Perfect Season on the Plains with the Smith Center Redmen
  by Joe Drape, NPR, October 6, 2009
• True Compass: A Memoir
  by Edward M. Kennedy, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 4, 2009
• The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools
  by E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The Boston Globe, September 27, 2009
• The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
  by Taylor Branch, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 27, 2009
• Homer & Langley
  by E. L. Doctorow, The Huffington Post, September 22, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters
  by Louis Begley, The Forward, September 18, 2009
• You or Someone Like You
  by Chandler Burr, The Jerusalem Post, September 11, 2009
• Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
  by Nelson Lichtenstein, Barron's Financial Weekly, September 7, 2009
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price
  by Chris Anderson, The Jerusalem Post, August 28, 2009
• In Rooms of Memory
  by Hilary Masters, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 16, 2009
• How the Beatles Destroyed Rock 'N' Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music
  by Elijah Wald, Tulsa World, August 16, 2009
• Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture
  by Ellen Ruppell Shell, Tulsa World, August 9, 2009
• That Old Cape Magic
  by Richard Russo, The Boston Globe, August 9, 2009
• Finding Oz: How L. Frank Baum Discovered the Great American Story
  by Evan I. Schwartz, Tulsa World, August 2, 2009
• Touch
  by Francine Prose, Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
• The State of Jones: The Small Southern County that Seceded from the Confederacy
  by Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer, Tulsa World, July 26, 2009
• The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America
  by Douglas Brinkley, The Baltimore Sun, July 26, 2009
• The Third Reich in the Ivory Tower: Complicity and Conflict on American Campuses
  by Stephen Norwood, The Boston Globe, July 26, 2009
• Judaism Does Not Equal Israel; Einstein on Israel and Zionism: His Provocative Ideas About the Middle East
  by Marc Ellis; Fred Jerome, The Forward, July 24, 2009
• The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal
  by Ben Mezrich, The Huffington Post, July 23, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Reagan's Secret War: The Untold Story of His Fight to Save the World from Nuclear Disaster
  by Martin Anderson and Annelise Anderson, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 19, 2009
• Rocket Men: The Epic Story of the First Men on the Moon
  by Craig Nelson, NPR, July 17, 2009
• The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
  by David Kilcullen, The Jerusalem Post, July 17, 2009
• The Devil's Tickets: A Night of Bridge, a Fatal Hand, and a New American Age
  by Gary M. Pomerantz, NPR, July 9, 2009
• The Last Trials of Clarence Darrow
  by Donald McRae, Tulsa World, June 28, 2009
• Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America
  by John Earl Haynes, Harvey Klehr and Alexander Vassiliev, The Portland Oregonian, June 28, 2009
• The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt
  by T. J. Stiles, Tulsa World, June 21, 2009
• The Environmental Justice
  by Adam M. Sowards, The Portland Oregonian, June 21, 2009
• Satchel: The Life and Times of an American Legend
  by Larry Tye, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 21, 2009
• Jews, God, and Videotape: Religion and Media in America
  by Jeffrey Shandler, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 21, 2009
• Talking Together: Public Deliberation and Political Participation in America
  by Lawrence R. Jacobs, Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael X. Delli Carpini, The Daily Kos, June 20, 2009
  (co-authored with Robert Spitzer)
• A Failure of Capitalism: The Crisis of '08 and the Descent into Depression
  by Richard A. Posner, The Jerusalem Post, June 19, 2009
• Ripped: How the Wired Generation Revolutionized Music
  by Greg Kot, The Huffington Post, June 15, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
  by Alain de Botton, The Boston Globe, June 14, 2009
• American Radical: The Life and Times of I. F. Stone
  by D. D. Guttenplan, NPR, June 8, 2009
• After Many a Summer: The Passing of the Giants and Dodgers and a Golden Age of New York Baseball
  by Robert E. Murphy, Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
• Rogues' Gallery: The Secret History of the Moguls and the Money that Made the Metropolitan Museum
  by Michael Gross, Tulsa World, June 7, 2009
• The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
  by Justin Fox, Barron's Financial Weekly, June 1, 2009
• The American Future: A History
  by Simon Schama, The Boston Globe, May 24, 2009
• Singin' in the Rain: The Making of an American Masterpiece
  by Earl J. Hess and Pratibha A. Dabholkar, Tulsa World, May 24, 2009
• The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement
  by Jean M. Twenge and W. Keith Campbell, PhD, The Huffington Post, May 21, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008
  by Thomas E. Ricks, The Jerusalem Post, May 15, 2009
• Pay To Play: How Rod Blagojevich Turned Political Corruption Into a National Show
  by Elizabeth Brackett, Ivan R. Dee, May 10, 2009
• Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America's Original Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century
  by Barry Mazor, Tulsa World, May 10, 2009
• The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story
  by Elliott West, The Portland Oregonian, May 3, 2009
• The Day We Found The Universe
  by Marcia Bartusiak, Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
• The Woman Behind the New Deal: The Life of Frances Perkins, FDR's Secretary of Labor and His Moral Conscience
  by Kirstin Downey, Tulsa World, May 3, 2009
• Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
  by Peter S. Canellos, The Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2009
• Bonnie and Clyde: The Lives Behind the Legend
  by Paul Schneider, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 26, 2009
• Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life
  by Gerald Martin, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 26, 2009
• Rosenfeld's Lives: Fame, Oblivion, and the Furies of Writing
  by Steven J. Zipperstein, The Forward, April 24, 2009
• Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself
  by Michael Shapiro, Tulsa World, April 19, 2009
• Yogi Berra: Eternal Yankee
  by Allen Barra, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 12, 2009
• As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires
  by Bruce Weber, NPR, April 6, 2009
• The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street as We Know It
  by David Kansas, Barron's Financial Weekly, April 6, 2009
• Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America
  by Julia Angwin, The Huffington Post, April 2, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Alger Hiss and the Battle for History
  by Susan Jacoby, The New York Observer, March 30, 2009
• Hunting Eichmann: How a Band of Survivors and a Young Spy Agency Chased Down the World's Most Notorious Nazi
  by Neal Bascomb, The Portland Oregonian, March 27, 2009
• So Damn Much Money: The Triumph of Lobbying and the Corrosion of American Government
  by Robert G. Kaiser, Tulsa World, March 22, 2009
• Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall (And Redeeming Promise) Of Our Country
  by William Greider, The Baltimore Sun, March 22, 2009
• Blood & Rage: A Cultural History of Terrorism
  by Michael Burleigh, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 15, 2009
• Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life
  by Adam Gopnik, The Boston Globe, March 15, 2009
• The Future of Liberalism
  by Alan Wolfe, The Boston Globe, March 8, 2009
• Joseph P. Kennedy Presents: His Hollywood Years
  by Cari Beauchamp, Tulsa World, March 8, 2009
• A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
  by Donald Worster, Reviews in American History 37, March 1, 2009
• 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History
  by Charles Bracelen Flood, Tulsa World, March 1, 2009
• Snark
  by David Denby, The Huffington Post, February 25, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
  by Will Bunch, Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
• Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited
  by Molly Haskell, Tulsa World, February 22, 2009
• A Mad Desire to Dance
  by Elie Wiesel, The Jerusalem Post, February 20, 2009
• Halliburton's Army: The Long, Strange Tale of a Private, Profitable and Out of Control Texas Oil Company
  by Pratap Chatterjee, The Portland Oregonian, February 13, 2009
• The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch
  by Michael Wolff, The Huffington Post, February 11, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Presidential Command: Power, Leadership, and the Making of Foreign Policy From Richard Nixon to George W. Bush
  by Peter W. Rodman, Tulsa World, February 8, 2009
• The Women
  by T. C. Boyle, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, February 8, 2009
• Chicago: A Novel
  by Alaa Al Aswany, The Philadelphia Inquirer, February 1, 2009
• Backstabbing for Beginners: My Crash Course in International Diplomacy
  by Michael Soussan, Tulsa World, January 25, 2009
• How To Break A Terrorist: The U.S. Interrogators Who Used Brains, Not Brutality, To Take Down The Deadliest Man in Iraq
  by Matthew Alexander, with John R. Bruning, Tulsa World, January 18, 2009
• The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith and the Birth of America
  by Steven Johnson, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 18, 2009
• Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer
  by Fred Kaplan, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 11, 2009
• Sweet Land of Liberty: The Forgotten Struggle for Civil Rights in the North
  by Thomas J. Sugrue, Tulsa World, January 11, 2009
• The Moguls and The Dictators: Hollywood and the Coming of World War II
  by David Welky, The Huffington Post, January 9, 2009
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Pages in Between
  by Erin Einhorn, The Jerusalem Post, January 1, 2009

2008

• Do the Right Thing: Inside the Movement That's Bringing Common Sense Back to America
  by Mike Huckabee, Tulsa World, December 14, 2008
• Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln
  by John Stauffer, The Baltimore Sun, December 7, 2008
• Call Me Ted
  by Ted Turner with Bill Burke, The Huffington Post, December 2, 2008
• New Deal or Raw Deal: How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America
  by Burton W. Folsom, Jr., Barron's Financial Weekly, December 1, 2008
• Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  by H. W. Brands, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 30, 2008
• Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Archenemy Betrayed the American Revolution - and What It Means for America Today
  by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Tulsa World, November 30, 2008
• Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
  by Michael Lewis, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, November 23, 2008
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
  by Alice Schroeder, The Baltimore Sun, November 23, 2008
• War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War
  by Brian DeLay, Tulsa World, November 23, 2008
• The Jewel of Medina: A Novel
  by Sherry Jones, The Jerusalem Post, November 14, 2008
• The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread
  by Maria Balinska, The Forward, November 14, 2008
• The Great Brain Suck and Other American Epiphanies
  by Eugene Halton, The Huffington Post, November 7, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Fred Astaire
  by Joseph Epstein, The Boston Globe, November 2, 2008
• From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1776
  by George C. Herring, The Jerusalem Post, October 24, 2008
• Some of It Was Fun: Working with RFK and LBJ
  by Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, Tulsa World, October 19, 2008
• The Widows of Eastwick
  by John Updike, The Jerusalem Post, October 7, 2008
• Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - And How it Can Renew America
  by Thomas L. Friedman, The Huffington Post, October 7, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Philanthro-Capitalism: How the Rich Can Save the World
  by Matthew Bishop and Michael Green, Barron's Financial Weekly, October 6, 2008
• Planet Google
  by Randall Stross, The Portland Oregonian, October 5, 2008
• The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality
  by Jerome R. Corsi, The Jerusalem Post, October 3, 2008
• Indignation
  by Philip Roth, The Jerusalem Post, September 19, 2008
• They Must Be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam and How We Can Do It; Against Us: The New Face of America's Enemies in the Muslim World
  by Brigitte Gabriel; Jim Sciutto, The Baltimore Sun, September 7, 2008
• Obscene in the Extreme: The Burning and Banning of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath
  by Rick Wartzman, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 31, 2008
• The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism
  by Ron Suskind, The Jerusalem Post, August 29, 2008
• Liberty: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
  by Garrison Keillor, The Baltimore Sun, August 24, 2008
• Man in the Dark
  by Paul Auster, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 24, 2008
• The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848
  by Martin Dugard, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 24, 2008
• Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
  by Lara Vapnyar, The Jerusalem Post, August 15, 2008
• The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
  by Andrew J. Bacevich, The New York Observer, August 11, 2008
• The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
  by Thomas Frank, The Baltimore Sun, August 10, 2008
• The Power Makers: Steam, Electricity, and the Men Who Invented Modern America
  by Maury Klein, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, August 10, 2008
• What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception
  by Scott McClellan, The Jerusalem Post, August 8, 2008
• 1434: The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
  by Gavin Menzies, The Baltimore Sun, July 27, 2008
• My Sister, My Love
  by Joyce Carol Oates, The Huffington Post, July 25, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism
  by Douglas J. Feith, The Jerusalem Post, July 25, 2008
• The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008
  by Sean Wilentz, The Boston Globe, July 20, 2008
• Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do
  by Tom Vanderbilt, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 20, 2008
• The China Diary of George H. W. Bush: The Making of a Global President
  by Jeffrey A. Engel, The Baltimore Sun, July 13, 2008
• Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy
  by Natan Sharansky with Shira Wolosky Weiss, The Jerusalem Post, July 11, 2008
• The Kingmakers: How the Media Threatens Our Security and Our Democracy
  by Mike Gravel and David Eisenbach, The Huffington Post, July 2, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future
  by Mark Bauerlein, The Huffington Post, June 19, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart
  by Bill Bishop, with Robert Cushing, The Boston Globe, June 15, 2008
• Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul; The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives; Spiritual Evolution: A Scientific Defense of Faith
  by Kenneth R. Miller; Leonard Mlodinow; George E. Vaillant, The Baltimore Sun, June 15, 2008
• Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America's Reputation and Leadership
  by Madeleine Albright, The Jerusalem Post, June 13, 2008
• White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters From FDR to George W. Bush
  by Robert Schlesinger, The Baltimore Sun, June 8, 2008
• Bush's Law: The Remaking of American Justice
  by Eric Lichtblau, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, June 1, 2008
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
  by Rick Perlstein, The Portland Oregonian, June 1, 2008
• Audition: A Memoir
  by Barbara Walters, The Huffington Post, May 27, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• The Post-American World
  by Fareed Zakaria, The Jerusalem Post, May 23, 2008
• The Lincolns: Portrait of a Marriage
  by Daniel Mark Epstein, The Baltimore Sun, May 18, 2008
• The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece
  by Simon Winchester, The Portland Oregonian, May 18, 2008
• A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
  by Tony Horwitz, The Baltimore Sun, May 11, 2008
• The Investor's Dilemma: How Mutual Funds Are Betraying Your Trust and What to Do About It
  by Louis Lowenstein, Barron's Financial Weekly, May 5, 2008
• Strange Bedfellows: How Late-Night Comedy Turns Democracy into a Joke
  by Russell Peterson, The Huffington Post, May 1, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen
  by Susan Griffin, The Baltimore Sun, April 27, 2008
• The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country; Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill); The Age of American Unreason
  by Laton McCartney; David Cay Johnston; Susan Jacoby, The Baltimore Sun, April 20, 2008
• Dictation
  by Cynthia Ozick, The Jerusalem Post, April 18, 2008
• Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood
  by Mark Harris, The Huffington Post, April 17, 2008
  (co-authored with Kevin Morris)
• Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle Between East and West
  by Anthony Pagden, The Baltimore Sun, April 13, 2008
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
  by Kevin Phillips, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 6, 2008
• The Second World: Empires and Influence in the New Global Order
  by Parag Khanna, The Baltimore Sun, April 6, 2008
• In Search of the Blues
  by Marybeth Hamilton, The Boston Globe, March 23, 2008
• The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict
  by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes, The Jerusalem Post, March 21, 2008
• Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
  by Nicholson Baker, The Boston Globe, March 9, 2008
• American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA When FDR Put the Nation to Work
  by Nick Taylor, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, March 9, 2008
• A Brief History of Rock, Off the Record
  by Wayne Robins, Journal of Popular Music Studies, March 1, 2008
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• President Lincoln: The Duty of a Statesman
  by William Lee Miller, The Baltimore Sun, February 24, 2008
• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy: From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond
  by Peter Gay, The Jerusalem Post, February 22, 2008
• Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right
  by E. J. Dionne, Jr., The New York Observer, February 18, 2008
• The Slave Ship: A Human History
  by Marcus Rediker, The Baltimore Sun, February 10, 2008
• The Logic of Life: The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
  by Tim Harford, The Baltimore Sun, February 3, 2008
• Day Of Reckoning: How Hubris, Ideology, and Greed are Tearing America Apart
  by Patrick J. Buchanan, The Jerusalem Post, February 1, 2008
• Cancel Your Own Goddam Subscription: Notes & Asides from The National Review
  by William F. Buckley Jr., The Baltimore Sun, January 27, 2008
• The Jewish Americans: Three Centuries of Jewish Voices in America
  by Beth S. Wenger, The Baltimore Sun, January 13, 2008
• Aaronsohn's Maps: The Untold Story of the Man Who Might Have Created Peace in the Middle East
  by Patricia Goldstone, The Jerusalem Post, January 11, 2008
• Can't Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
  by Jonathan Gould, The Baltimore Sun, January 6, 2008
• The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (On A Shag Rug) in the Seventies
  by Thomas Hine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 6, 2008