The Kentucky Democrat

Reviews will be coming back online soon.  There's no excuse for my absence but I moved in February and it took a while to get settled in.  No furniture aside from an air mattress made it hard t...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2016/05/reviews-are-coming-soon.html

I know I've been slacking...some have just been taking a bit longer to read than others but reviews will be up this week.

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/12/books.html

In a Dark, Dark Wood Hardcover: 320 pages Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press (August 4, 2015) Ruth Ware brings us a mystery thriller in the vein of Gone Girl and this year's bestseller, The Girl...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/10/in-dark-dark-wood-by-ruth-ware.html

Haven of Liberty: New York Jews in the New World, 1654-1865 (City of Promises) Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of Immigration, 1840-1920 (City of Promises) Jews in Gotham: New Y...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/09/city-of-promises-trilogy-on-history-of.html

Bream Gives Me Hiccups & Other Stories by Jesse Eisenberg Hardcover: 256 pages Publisher: Grove Press (September 8, 2015) Inspired by The End of The Tour, the veteran actor of the screen tak...

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Pedro by Pedro Martinez Published just before his induction this summer into Cooperstown, the colorful Hall of Fame pitcher opens up and tells his story for the first time.  Before we knew him...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/09/recently-published-baseball-hall-of.html

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham Meacham draws on original research to gives us a new portrait of a president that is overexposed but the least understood.  Complicated and el...

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Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide by Michael Oren Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Random House; 1St Edition edition (June 23, 2015) Oren's memoir is a personal account  of...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/09/book-review-ally-by-michael-oren.html

Dolph Schayes and the Rise of Professional Basketball by Dolph Grundman Hardcover: 232 pages Publisher: Syracuse University Press (October 7, 2014) Grundman gives us the first-ever biography...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/07/reviews-of-sports-biographies-and-other.html

Repeat by Neal Pollack Paperback: 236 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (March 24, 2015) Repeat is what Groundhog Day could have been had Bill Murray's character been forced to relive hi...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/07/book-review-repeat-by-neal-pollack.html

The President's Shadow (The Culper Ring Series) Hardcover: 416 pages Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (June 16, 2015) Brad Meltzer is at  it again.  With his third thriller in the Cu...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/06/book-review-presidents-shadow-by-brad.html

Last Monday, Joe Sonka broke the news at Insider Louisville that Daniel Grossberg, a candidate for State Treasurer in Kentucky, was being threatened by his former media consultant, Jacob Conway,...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/05/media-silence-on-extortion-threat.html

I have a pile of unread books that I am making my through as fast as possible so as to get reviews published here or other sites, if need be.

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/05/books.html

Lincoln and the Jews: A History by Jonathan Sarna and Benjamin Shapell Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books (March 17, 2015) Abraham Lincoln is one of my favorite presidents an...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-lincoln-and-jews-history-by.html

The comments from the White House today are not surprising given the President's remarks of late.  All I have to say in response is this: No duh. Arafat and Abbas both walked away from the be...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/03/peace-in-middle-east.html

The rhetoric coming from the White House is leading to a rift with the Jewish Establishment, be it the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, American Jewish Committee, Anti-Defamation League...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/03/white-house-at-odds-with-jewish.html

You Can't Make This Up: Miracles, Memories, and the Perfect Marriage of Sports and Television by Al Michaels with Jon Wertheim Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: William Morrow; First Edition/Fir...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-you-cant-make-this-up-by-al.html

The Secret Game: A Wartime Story of Courage, Change, and Basketball's Lost Triumph by Scott Ellsworth Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 10, 2015) The Secret Ga...

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The Global War on Morris: A Novel by Congressman Steve Israel Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (December 30, 2014) When a member of Congress pens a book, it usually means tha...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/03/book-review-global-war-on-morris-by.html

Dirty Rush by Taylor Bell Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Gallery Books (January 13, 2015) The creative minds behind the best-selling White Girl Problems are back with an all-new book, desc...

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2015/02/book-review-dirty-rush-by-taylor-bell.html

Funny Girl: A Novel by Nick Hornby Hardcover: 464 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover; Unabridged edition (February 3, 2015) Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby is back with a n...

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Veronica Mars (2): An Original Mystery by Rob Thomas: Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Vintage; Mti edition (January 20, 2015) Our favorite...

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The Girl on the Train: A Novel by Paula Hawkins Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover (January 13, 2015) There are some books that one cannot put down until they are finished r...

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Following is a translation of the remarks on antisemitism delivered by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls to the National Assembly on January 13, 2015: …THE FIRST QUESTION THAT HAS TO BE CLEARL...

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Called Out but Safe: A Baseball Umpire's Journey by Al Clark with Dan Schlossberg Hardcover: 240 pages Publisher: University of Nebraska Press (May 1, 2014) Al Clark worked as an umpire in m...

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