Trivia question: Name this forgotten man, the subject of Ross Melnick’s eye-poppingly informative new book, “ American Showman ”: He was the most creative and most popular independent exhibitor of silent films at a series of movie palaces (seating up to 6,000 people) in New York during the 1920s. Read full article > >

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Book World: ‘American Showman’ by Ross Melnick

Remarks from 1990 in a new book about Ben Bradlee, the former editor of The Washington Post, drew a defense from the reporter Bob Woodward.

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Woodward Responds to Bradlee Watergate Excerpt

P. J. O’Rourke’s new book, “Holidays in Heck,” a sequel of sorts to 1988’s “Holidays in Hell,” is a collection of essays and observations about his health, travels and family.

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Books of The Times: ‘Holidays in Heck,’ by P. J. O’Rourke – Review

A G.M.-Ford merger? That’s how desperate Detroit’s auto industry was in the summer of 2008, according to “Once Upon a Car,” a new book by Bill Vlasic.

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‘Once Upon a Car’: On the Road to Detroit’s Big Pileup

Steven Brill’s new book “Class Warfare” brings a sharp legal mind to the world of education reform, where he mounts a zealous case against America’s teachers’ unions.

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Book Review: Steve Brill’s Report Card on School Reform

The following is an excerpt from “Jihad Joe: Americans Who Go to War in the Name of Islam”( Potomac Books , May 2011), a new book on the history of American jihadists by J.M. Berger of Intelwire.com . Click here for more information. The excerpt was written before the death of Osama bin Laden and has been edited slightly for formatting purposes.

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Anwar Awlaki is NOT the next Osama bin Laden: An Excerpt from Jihad Joe

The Australian poet Les Murray offers a memoir of his depression, and a new book of verse.

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Les Murray and the Poetry of Depression

Someone page Mulder and Scully: Sammy Hagar says he was abducted by aliens, or at least that they downloaded his brain. In an interview with mtvhive.com about his new book, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, the ex-Van Halen frontman said that part of…

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Sammy Hagar, Alien Abductee?

A new book, and study, seek to take the measure of whether students generally increase their critical-thinking and writing skills once in college.

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The Choice: How Much Do College Students Learn, and Study?

A new book examines the iconography of Lady Justice and her blindfold.

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Lawyers Fix Their Eyes on Blind Lady Justice

An interview with Jonathan Safran Foer about his new book, “Tree of Codes,” which features cutout pages, with text peeking through windows as the tale unfolds.

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Paper Cuts: Foer’s Book as Art Object

Perhaps he can get a refund: Kanye West actually hired a public-relations consulting firm to coach him for his disastrous interview last week with the Today show’s Matt Lauer. Former President George W. Bush, promoting his new book last week, called…

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Kanye Was Coached for Lauer Interview

Texas Governor Rick Perry will be chosen as the next head of the Republican Governors Association when the group meets next week in San Diego, sources tell Politico. Perry has been making the media rounds promoting a new book about protecting states’…

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Perry to Head GOP Governors Assn.

If this isn’t the plot of the next Aaron Sorkin drama, we’ll be really disappointed: Former President Bill Clinton apparently lost the “biscuit,” the document with the codes the president must use in case of a nuclear attack, according to a new book by…

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Clinton Lost Nuclear Codes While President

How’s this one going to play out with the conspiracy theorists? A new book by retired Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine claims he almost shot President Lyndon Johnson, just hours after President John Kennedy was assassinated. Assigned to protect…

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Secret Service Almost Shot LBJ