Simon & Schuster
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Janesville: An American Story
Janesville was devastated by the closing of the General Motors plant in December 2008. Amy Goldstein’s book takes us through the five years following the plant closure. Janesville survived the loss of the plant and all of the supporting industries but it never finally recovered. It was refreshing to get an honest appraisal of what… Continue reading
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The Nazi Hunters
Nagorski’s Nazis Hunter’s story picks up after the Nuremberg trials. The official search for Nazis waned, partly because we became obsessed with the communists and partly because we felt that Germany just needed to get on with its healing from its reign of terror. For some reason I thought that most of the war criminals… Continue reading