Book confederates in the attic6/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Horwitz won a 1994 James Aronson Award and the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for his stories about working conditions in low-wage America published in The Wall Street Journal. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa as a history major from Brown University and received a master's degree at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Horwitz was an alumnus of Sidwell Friends School, in Washington, D.C. He was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Norman Harold Horwitz, a neurosurgeon, and Elinor Lander Horwitz, a writer. His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback, Baghdad Without a Map, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World, Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011), and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide. ![]() Anthony Lander Horwitz (J– May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. ![]()
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Please be aware that the sidebar in 'old' Reddit is no longer being updated with information about Book Clubs and AMAs as of October 2018. ![]() Bill browder author red notice6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() State industries were privatized for pennies on the dollar, and the opportunity to profit was open to anyone paying attention.īill Browder, author of Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice, was paying attention. Like this show? Please leave us a review here - even one sentence helps!Īfter the fall of The Iron Curtain in the early ’90s, Eastern Europe and Russia were ripe for investors poised to take advantage of a communist economy trying to make the jump start to a free market. 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Bill Browder ( pioneered a brand-new market after the fall of The Iron Curtain while making powerful enemies - including Vladimir Putin. ![]() The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman6/6/2023 ![]() ![]() That said, of course there’s a “but” and it’s a big one. Rachman’s strong points are entirely technical - solid pacing, a broad range of distinct characters, snappy and largely believable dialogue, and the novel also benefits from Rachman’s journalism background as a foreign correspondent and editor, by lending the events and atmosphere of its stories believability and credibility. It’s also sort of a depressing book in general, especially as it wears on and the paper’s financial situation worsens. These profiles, however, lack substance - and in the end the book amounts to a largely useless collection of stereotypes. 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