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Andrew Meier
Mixed New York Times Book Review Andrew Meier makes a 1,046-page case for a different kind of dynasty, one where the protagonists have little in common except their inherited privilege ... Henry Jr\'s son Robert M. is today probably the best-known Morgenthau, yet Meier’s portrait of him is the weakest in the book ... Meier has little feel for the realities of prosecutors’ offices, and his version of Morgenthau’s career appears unduly reliant on sources in Morgenthau’s network of loyal alumni ... Meier focuses on a pair of investigations that appear to prove the opposite of what he intends ... Meier’s gracefully written account doesn’t neatly cohere along a single theme, but that may just reflect the messy realities of family life.
William P Barr
Mixed The New York Time Book Review It’s a rare Washington memoir that makes you gasp in the very second sentence ... Throughout, Barr affects a quasi-paternal tone when discussing Trump, as if the president were a naughty but good-hearted adolescent ... Overall, his views reflect the party line at Fox News, which, curiously, he does not mention in several jeremiads about left-wing domination of the news media.
Evan Thomas
Rave The New York Times Book Review \"... fascinating and revelatory ... The book is billed as an \'intimate portrait\' of O’Connor, and it certainly is ... Thomas makes the most of this bounty, producing a richly detailed picture of [O\'Connor\'s] personal and professional life ... Thomas avoids the case-by-case death march that is the plague of judicial biographies, and by focusing on a handful of decisions he gives a clear sense of how she understood her role ... Thomas pretty much lets O’Connor off the hook for her shabbiest moment on the court — her decisive role in the 5-to-4 travesty that was Bush v. Gore ... Evan Thomas’s book is not just a biography of a remarkable woman, but an elegy for a worldview that, in law as well as politics, has disappeared from the nation’s main stages.\
Gilbert King
Rave The New York Times Book Review Florida has largely escaped the opprobrium heaped on the other states of the old Confederacy, but it’s to the Sunshine State that King returns with a story of mind-boggling racism and cruelty ... King tells this complex story with grace and sensitivity, and his narrative never flags. His mastery of the material is complete ... King’s occasional detours into such subjects as the history of the citrus industry and Dr. King’s protests in St. Augustine (where he faced some of the ugliest crowds of his career) are welcome and illuminating. The author presents his tale as one of justice triumphing, of the good guys (and gals) coming out on top, of the arc of the universe bending toward justice.