Ken Budd “The Voluntourist”
May 16th, 2012
Some people travel to see the sights, some for self-enrichment, some for adventure.
And then there are those who travel to far-off places to volunteer their help. “Voluntourists,” they’re sometimes called. And Ken Budd is one of them.
The death of his father hit him hard, and made him reassess what he was doing with his life. That was the moment an opportunity serendipitously presented itself, and .. well, Ken Budd had found a new calling.
His new book is called “The Voluntourist.”
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Frank Deford “Over Time”
May 15th, 2012
For half a century one of America’s most celebrated sports journalists has been Frank Deford, whose unique ability to somehow tell a football or baseball or golf story from an angle no one had seen or thought of before has made him a legend.
Starting out in 1962 in a “Mad Men”-like environment at Sports Illustrated, Deford has since moved on to television and radio, but can still tell a tale like nobody else.
His new memoir “Over Time” is a rich feast of Deford stories — his own, as well as those of the people he’s covered — that tells as much about the state of sports journalism and how it’s changed as it does about the sports these men and women cover.
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Victoria Sweet “God’s Hotel”
May 14th, 2012
Once, a long time ago, America had hundreds of hospitals that served their community’s poor — “almshouses,” they were often called. They practiced a kind of medicine virtually unknown in the west today, “slow medicine.”
But by the 1990s there was only one such hospital left in the entire country, San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital. That’s where Victoria Sweet thought she was going to spend a couple of months, doctoring patients. She ended up staying twenty years. and her new book “God’s Hotel” is a chronicle of those years.
It’s an eye-opening look at what medicine once was, and — Sweet says — can be again.
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Marilu Henner “Total Memory Makeover”
May 11th, 2012
Most books on how to improve your memory focus on how to recall names, faces, locker combinations, and the like.
Marilu Henner‘s book “Total Memory Makeover” uses an entirely different approach.
You may have seen that “60 Minutes” story on people with a rare ability to remember everything, from every day of their lives. Henner is one of those people. .
And while you may not have that kind of recall, Henner says you have much greater memory capacity than you think you do. And it’s not just about remembering names, dates, and secret passwords. It’s about remembering things that will help make your life better.
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Max Holland “Leak”
May 9th, 2012
For over thirty years one of the great mysteries in contemporary American politics was the identity of Deep Throat, the shadowy source who helped Bob Woodward of the Washington Post uncover the Watergate scandal.
Then, in 2005, former FBI official Mark Felt outed himself as Deep Throat, and was condemned by many, hailed as a hero by many others.
But few have explored why Mark Felt did what he did. Indeed, isn’t that at the heart of the question of whether he’s a hero or a villain.
In his new book “Leak” Max Holland digs into what motivated Mark Felt, what was in it for him, and whether he really was a conscientious whistleblower defending a democracy under threat — or someone with a far less lofty goal.
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