Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards

W. W. Norton & Company Review by Brian Tanguay The failure of banks and savings and loan institutions has a long history in the United States. Most people know something…

A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick by Cathy Curtis

Norton Review by Brian Tanguay “There is simply no accounting for her gifts. She was a unicorn, born among horses.”  So wrote author and cultural critic William Deresiewicz in “The…

Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire & Revolution in the Borderlands by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

Review by Brian Tanguay On July 4, 1915, a band of armed and mounted Mexicans crossed the border and murdered three white men in southern Texas. For the next five…