The New York Times Book Review released its 100 Notable Books of 2008.
Notably, there are a lot of New York Times writers on the list, among them:
- The Challenge: Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and the Fight Over Presidential Power by Jonathan Mahler.
John Koblin asks, What’s the matter with Jersey? "Since the start of summer, The New York Times emptied out its two New Jersey bureaus in Trenton and Newark; in June, The Record of Bergen County announced it would shut down its headquarters and its reporters would be homeless; in July, The Star Ledger announced Read More
You might think Jonathan Mahler would have been pleased when he heard on the afternoon of July 18 that Guantánamo detainee Salim Hamdan was going to face trial just as Farrar, Straus and Giroux was getting ready to publish the book that Mr. Mahler had spent the last four years writing about him.
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Jonathan Mahler didn’t know whether to be happy or sad when he read on July 22 that Salim Ahmed Hamdan’s Military Commission trial had begun. He’d been following the case for years, and as it happened, he’d recently finished a book about it that was scheduled to come out in just a few weeks. Consequently, Read More
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City, by Jonathan Mahler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 368 pages, $25.
In New York, we tend to confuse our Golden Ages with our Dark Ages.
This is at least as true in baseball as in Read More
