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Will the real Ben Franklin please stand up? Walter Isaacson, the latest biographer of the multitalented Founding Father, is cut from much the same cloth as his subject.
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life was one of the stellar successes of the year--with nine weeks near the top of The New York Times bestseller...
Book, 11/01/03 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
One day at a time: think you're too busy to get into a good book? The DearReader.com book clubs will prove you're not. (Group Dynamics).
SUZANNE BEECHER LOVES READING and wants others to love it, too. But she saw that at the computer business she and her husband own, most...
Book, 03/01/03 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
America's biggest readers: an obsessively omnivorous polymath, a speed-reading insomniac, an incomparably prolific reviewer and just some regular folks--here are our favorite people who read more than you do.
AMERICANS BUY MORE THAN TWO AND A HALF billion books per year--about nine each for every man, woman and child in the country. Most Book readers...
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Hanging tough: for powerhouse TV producer Stephen J. Cannell, excellent books keep the new ideas coming. (Style).(Hollywood Tough)(Brief Article)(Interview)(Biography)
STEPHEN J. CANNELL'S GOAL, FROM early on, was to be a writer--a surprising ambition for a dyslexic who often flunked high school English. But...
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Meeting in Ernest: in Kosovo, a Hemingway classic fosters bonds between a well-off American and her poverty-stricken students. (Group Dynamics).(The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo)
PAULA HUNTLEY LOVES THE monthly meetings of her Marin County book group. "The discussion of the book is always a wonderful thing," she says. "But...
Book, 01/01/03 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
The new misfit: ZZ Packer. (Ten To Watch in 2003).(Brief Article)
In Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, ZZ Packer's debut story collection, several of the protagonists are little girls, one is a twenty-something man and...
Book, 01/01/03 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
Shaara's march: Gods and Generals, the prequel to the 1993 adaptation of Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, reaches theatres in February. Bringing it to the screen required years of work--and an unlikely passing of the torch from father to son.
When Ronald Maxwell first picked up Michael Shaara's The Killer Angels, in 1978, he had no idea he'd still be dealing with it twenty-five years...
Book, 01/01/03 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
The hunt is on: one man's search for a long-lost writer. (Special Projects).(Stone Reader)(Movie Review)
IN 1972, MARK MOSKOWITZ, THEN A FRESHMAN IN COLLEGE, was inspired by a laudatory New York Times book review to pick up Dow Mossman's first and...
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Review your notes: to make sense of challenging books, grown-ups use study guides the way they were intended. (Group Dynamics).(Bibliography)
CLIFFSNOTES--THEY'RE NOT JUST FOR LAZY COLLEGE KIDS ANYMORE. The publishers of the venerable yellow-covered study aids have always insisted...
Book, 11/01/02 by Oxfeld, Jesse · More from publication -
See. Touch. Taste. Click. Buy - Industry Trend or Event
Shopping is a sensory experience, but e-commerce has left our senses parched. Now comes a handful of companies with gimmicks that could transform...
Industry Standard, The, 12/01/00 by Jesse Oxfeld · More from publication
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