In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world. Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing by Jim Yardley The nutshell: What happens when an ex-NBA coach lands at the helm of one of the worst teams [...]
The Six-Point Inspection
The People’s Republic, the People’s Car, and the People’s Rebels
Brave Dragons, Thinking Small, and Rebel Rulers
February 21, 2012The Six-Point Inspection: Archives
The Far East, the Midwest, and a British Intellectual
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, The Big Empty, and Thinking the Twentieth Century
On February 14, 2012In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world.
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War by Stephen R. Platt
Construction, Comics, and Crips
Highway Under the Hudson, Mutants and Mystics, and Power Concedes Nothing
On January 31, 2012In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world.
Highway Under the Hudson: A History of the Holland Tunnel by Robert W. Jackson
Debt, Grief, and Disappointment
Borrow, Kayak Morning, and Not in Our Lifetimes
On January 24, 2012In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world.
Borrow: The American Way of Debt by Louis Hyman
The nutshell: Cornell University economic historian Louis Hyman traces American debt from the invention of the Ford Model-T—which everyone paid for in cash—to the rise of credit card debt in the 1990s and the mortgage crisis that triggered the current downturn. He argues that we focus too much on how businesses lend rather than on why Americans borrow. …
Genes, Egyptians, and Jews
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess, The Struggle for Egypt, and Jews and Booze
On January 17, 2012In The Six-Point Inspection, Zócalo takes a quick look at new books that are changing the way we see our world.
The Wandering Gene and the Indian Princess: Race, Religion, and DNA by Jeff Wheelwright
The nutshell: History, science writing, and investigative journalism merge to tell a story of genes, disease, and religion that moves from the mountains of the American Southwest to the labs of Manhattan. Journalist Jeff Wheelwright’s jumping-off point is the death of a 28-year-old Hispano woman in Colorado—and her family’s discovery that they carry a BRCA1 gene mutation that that afflicts Ashkenazi Jews, and increases their risk of breast cancer. …
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