San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
The Big Burn Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America Timothy Egan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 324 pages; $27) Call it irony, or fate or coincidence, but not long ago, right around the time Timothy Egan's impressive, impassioned new book, "The Big...
Slog (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
In the New York Times : If this case does not sink the presidential aspirations of Huckabee, a leading Republican candidate, it should. By the standards that Republicans launched almost 20 years ago, Huckabee will be Willie Hortonized. But this case also shows, as with an earlier episode in Arkansas, that Huckabee’s judgment is seriously flawed. If Huckabee were a liberal and a Democrat, he...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
This country's legal system is far from perfect. But when you're feeling annoyed by that, at least be thankful you're not on trial for murder in Italy. Timothy Egan, NYT: In just a few days, a verdict is expected in the trial of Amanda Knox, the 22-year-old Seattle exchange student on trial in Italy for the throat-slashing murder of her British roommate two years ago. Her ex-boyfriend,...
The Eclectic Chapbook (Free subscription) | yesterday
Meredith Kercher Murder Case - Some additional late links follow . . . # Barbie Nadeau in an exclusive for Newsweek Online suggests that whatever the outcome of the trial in Perugia, Amanda Knox has lost control over her own image. # Timothy Egan, a Pacific Northwest blogster for the NY Times, believes Amanda Knox is being put through the wringer in Italy because: "To many Italians,...
