BOOK REVIEW: MERE ANARCHY by Woody Allen

Check with your doctor if you have a heart condition before you read this book. If you don’t burst an artery, you’re sure to bust a gut while you laugh your head off. This is the first collection of humor pieces by Woody Allen in 25 years. Timeless. A riot. The one piece called “The Rejection” made me fall off my chair. (That has only happened once before this while I read something humorous “The way the Cookie Crumbles’ which I wrote myself.)

“The Rejection” is about education and social status, gained and lost, when Boris Ivanoviich had problems trying to enroll his three year-old son in the ”very best nursery school in Manhattan.” Make a note to read this one. It is a must read. If you don’t buy a copy of the book, go borrow a copy of MERE ANARCHY from your public library. Read “The Rejection” segment, please.

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In The River They Swim — Essays of Enterprise Solutions to Poverty

“In The River They Swim” is a book collection of twenty-nine essays on enterprise solutions to poverty that includes a foreword by Dr. Rick Warren. Published this Spring (2009) by Templeton Press. What these authors have to say has additional meaning today during the current economic rescission, global warming, the scarcity of raw materials, and over-population on Earth.

Part one is called The Journey. Part two has essays under Strategies For Prosperity and Part Three’s essays are in the section that’s called Globalization.

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Family of Secrets
by Russ Baker

Russ Baker is an investigative reporter well known for fact-based reporting. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, the Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the Village Voice, Esquire and as a contributing editor to the Columbia Journalism Review. He also is the founder of the nonprofit investigative news organization at WhoWhatWhy.com.

By now, I’m sure you have heard all the glowing, historical “accomplishments” by the Bush Administration listed by the President at his last news conference and given elsewhere in the media by the President and his loyal supporters.

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Barack’s High School
Basketball Team Photo

As I picked up his first book, I was hesitant and even a little anxious because over the past 2 years, I have become completely transfixed by the aura of a man who has some how, some way, managed to not only transcend his own race but the cynical and calculated persona of a “typical politician”. So, here I was poised to open the first page, vulnerable to, yet excited by, the prospect of finding out who is the real Barack Obama.

Dreams From His Father

As I turned the first pages of Dreams From My Father, I began to relax as I could already sense that this was no ordinary book. This book, prompted by publishers attempting to capitalize on the first black man to head the esteemed, well guarded and all-white Harvard Law Review, was revealing itself to be more than an interior assessment of racial transcendence and pride. It was unfolding, page after page, as an honest and sometimes raw journey into the mind and psyche of a man’s struggle to find himself.

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