THE PROMISE: PRESIDENT OBAMA, YEAR ONE JONATHAN ALTER Simon & Schuster 458 pages, hardcover $36.00 CDN Jonathan Alter’s new book, The Promise (2010) is a thorough, presently unrivalled assessment of the forty-fourth president of the United States of America’s transitional and troubled first year in office. The title is drawn from a recurring theme throughout [...]

Since one of the recurrent subjects on this site will be books, I though I’d share a brief list of new books I’ll be picking up over the next three months — some of which I will review in a more formal capacity later on. APRIL + Andrew Potter, The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get [...]