Book: The Cycle: A Practical Approach to Managing Arts Organizations Authors: Michael Kaiser, Brett E. Egan Review: Miriam Bruns, executive director at the Goethe-Zentrum / German Cultural Center Atlanta In […]
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Books 2014: A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and The Great Betrayal
Review: Paul Varian retired from CNN last fall after 30 years as an editor, writer and senior executive producer. I’ve always been a fan of spy thrillers, whether fiction or […]
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Books 2014: Rowing for Gold in Berlin, Inspiring a Generation
Book: The Boys in the Boat Author: Daniel James Brown Review: Shelby Grubbs, executive director of the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation at Georgia State University A great […]
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Books 2014: Beyond Wealth and Power, a Third Metric to Measure Success
Book: Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder Author: Arianna Huffington Review by Martin Richenhagen, Chairman, President & CEO, AGCO Corporation […]
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Books 2014: The Assassination of the Archduke
Book: The Assassination of the Archduke Author(s): Greg King and Sue Woolmans Review: Bruce Allen, honorary consul of Liechtenstein in Georgia With this year as the 100th anniversary of the […]
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Books 2014: Regeneration
Title: Regeneration Author: Pat Barker Review: Hala Moddelmog, president and CEO, Metro Atlanta Chamber During 2014, the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of World War I, I read a lot […]
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Books 2014: Nora Webster
Book: Nora Webster Author: Colm Tóibín Reviewer: Paul Gleeson, Consul General of Ireland in Atlanta Set in Wexford in the southeast of Ireland at the end of the 1960s, “Nora Webster” tells the story […]
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Books 2013: American Witnesses to the Rise of Hitler’s Germany
Book: “In The Garden of the Beasts” Author: Erik Larson Review: Paul Varian, retired journalist, CNN Though it has the narrative force and dramatic rush of a novel, this work of...
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Books 2013: Covering Atlanta’s Airport City Aspirations
Book: Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next Author(s): John Kasarda, Greg Lindsay Review: Trevor Williams, editor, Global Atlanta Perhaps more than any other city, Atlanta is defined by its international...
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Books 2013: The Travails of Tenant Farming in the Old South
Book(s): “Cotton Tenants: Three Families” by James Agee and “And Their Children After Them: The Legacy of ‘Let Us Now Praise Famous Men’: James Agee, Walker Evans, and the Rise and Fall...