RaveThe Milwaukee Sentinel Journal... Haruki Murakami's accessible and often moving new novel, underscores that difference, and the personal journey necessary to bridge that gap ... As is often the case in Murakami's fiction, his characters are all about introspection — think Ted Mosby in TV's How I Met Your Mother or Woody Allen...tone is often neutral, if deceptively so ... Tsukuru relates dark fantasies involving the people in his past in such a matter-of-fact way that the character himself isn't sure they're not real. As always with Murakami, it doesn't really matter if they are real: It's the feelings they evoke that matter.
David A. Nichols
PositiveThe Milwaukee JournalWhile the story is sometimes repetitive, it is a thorough and detailed look inside one of the classic battles in American politics ... As he did throughout his presidency, Eisenhower took the public position that he was above the down-and-dirty of politics. Because of his public aloofness, many believed Eisenhower was politically naive. The original golfing president, Nichols shows in meticulous detail, was far from it.
Jon Else
PositiveThe Milwaukee Journal SentinelCombining his own remembrances with extensive interviews, Else crafts a compelling, sometimes cautionary tale of what it takes to take on such a mammoth storytelling task ... Else weaves Hampton's story, and his own, into the narrative of the making of Eyes on the Prize in ways that give that tale depth and insight.
Jeffrey Toobin
PositiveThe Milwaukee Journal SentinelIn engaging and breezily written prose, [Toobin] shows that it's more than a footnote to its time. In many ways, Hearst's tale embodied its time, or at least the dark side of it ... a terrifically detailed recounting of the Hearst case and its aftermath. But American Heiress is more than that. In telling this story, Toobin also opens a window on the surrealism of the '70s in a way that makes it all of a piece — and, in some instances, a harbinger of the future.
