Dante Ramos

Rough waters
Preacher and professor Michael Eric Dyson attacks America's reaction to Katrina as racist, ignorant and inept. But his rushed book is little more than a soggy rehash.
Public health vs. private medicine
Laurie Garrett, author of "Betrayal of Trust," talks about the policy battle in America that allows disease to spread and people to die.
"Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" by Arthur Herman
A revisionist biography argues that the red-hunting senator got a bum rap.
"I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr." by Michael Eric Dyson
What would the civil rights leader think if he were alive today?
"The Crisis of Desire: AIDS and the Fate of Gay Brotherhood"
A gay activist turns the revolutionary lens of the '70s on the sleepy politics of the '90s.
Turkey Shoot 1998
The worst books of 1998
Compassion Fatigue
Dante Ramos reviews 'Compassion Fatigue: How The Media Sell Disease, Famine, War And Death' by Susan D. Moeller
The Sneaker Book
Dante Ramos reviews 'The Sneaker Book: An Anatomy Of An Industry And An Icon' by Tom Vanderbilt.
A New Kind Of Party Animal
Dante Ramos reviews 'A New Kind of Party Animal' by Michele Mitchell

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