The hellhound of Wall Street

Perino, Michael A.(2010). The hellhound of Wall Street : how Ferdinand Pecora's investigation of the Great Crash forever changed American finance. New York : Penguin Press.

Wittgenstein's poker

A regular patron told me about this book; seems interesting.

The Andy Goldsworthy Project

Zeitoun

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, longtime New Orleans residents Abdulrahman and Kathy Zeitoun are cast into an unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind and water. In the days after the storm, Abdulrahman traveled the flooded streets in a secondhand canoe, passing on supplies and helping those he could. A week later, on September 6, 2005, Zeitoun abruptly disappeared-- arrested and accused of being an agent of al Qaeda.

Mennonite in a little black dress

Today a patron asked for these; seem interesting.

The art of the essay 1999

The Art of the personal essay : an anthology from the classical era to the present

Triumph and tragedy in Mudville

Paleontologist and baseball fan.

"For baseball fans who admire fine writing as much as a home-run swing,"

Even Kirkus praised it: "In this sparkling collection, the late paleontologist and popular science essayist (The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox, see above) gathers random writings on one of his many passions: baseball"

Among schoolchildren

Tracy Kidder book; looks interesting. A patron reserved it today.

New books

Saw these books on Readers Advisory desk when I arrived at 11 this morning; seemed interesting.

Joe Speedboat. Tommy Wieringa. translated from the Dutch by Sam Garrett.

Nothing happened and then it did: a chronicle in fact and fiction. Jake Silverstein.


Skylark. Dezso Kosztolányi ; introduction by Péter Esterházy ; translated by Richard Aczel.

Stations West. Allison Amend. (Recommended it to a patron; she took it.)


Plus, a patron asked for William Trevor's latest book, Love and Summer.

In NY Times book review: Theodore Roosevelt, Empire Builder.

‘Muriel Spark: The Biography’ (well reviewed in Journal last week)

Wanna laugh and get angry at the same time? Books by Republicans. NO APOLOGY. The Case for American Greatness. Mitt Romney. and one by Karl Rove. Oy.

‘13 Bankers’

By SIMON JOHNSON and JAMES KWAK
Reviewed by LOUIS UCHITELLE 

 

The Radical Center: The History of an Idea

By SAM TANENHAUS

The Tea Party is new. But this is not the first time we’ve seen an angry populist politics emerge from the American middle class.

 

This book is overdue!

Johnson, Marilyn. This book is overdue!: how librarians and cybrarians can save us all.

Burning down the house

Burning down the house : essays on fiction, Charles Baxter. Has back-cover blurb in Schlepping through the Alps : my search for Austria's Jewish past with its last wandering shepherd / Sam Apple.