Unfiltered Facts
Author Stanton Glantz provides an insider's view of how the tobacco industry works. It's not pretty. [04-20-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Battle Decry
It was a "short, vicious" conflict that, by proportion of population, inflicted greater casualties than any other war in American history. [04-20-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Rites And Wrongs
It was no accident that the perpetrators of the Boston Tea Party donned Indian headdresses before sending British cargo into the drink. [04-13-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Batter Up
The history of baseball, as interpreted by two of its leading lights. [03-16-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Rock-and-Roll Heaven
Prolific pop guru Lester Bangs rides again, despite the fact that the legendary critic and writer for the likes of "Rolling Stone" and "Creem" is still dead. [03-09-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Pillaging the Amazon
Filmmaker Geoffrey O'Connor takes a well-deserved jaundiced view of Amazonia gold fever. [03-09-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Golden State of Mind
In search of the soul of California. [02-16-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Blue Suede Dude
A look at the life of the late, and definitely great, Carl Perkins. [01-26-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Desert Buzz
Author John Alcock, a professor of zoology at Arizona State University and prolific writer about Sonoran Desert ecology, must be a suburban neighbor's worst nightmare. [01-20-98]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Commodities, Cash And Christmas
In "Consumer Rites: The Buying and Selling of American Holidays," historian Leigh Eric Schmidt tells us just how Christmas came to be such a commercialized morass. [12-29-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Nuke Joint
Author Jo Ann Shroyer takes a peek inside Los Alamos National Laboratory, cradle of the A-bomb. [12-22-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
American Outback
The little-chronicled Great Basin has found a redoubtable champion in Stephen Trimble. His "Sagebrush Ocean" is a fine addition to the library of any desert rat. [12-22-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Pop-Cultural Contraband
Greil Marcus travels an odd path and makes some remarkable historical discoveries in this pop-culture tour that begins in Bob Dylan's basement. [12-08-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Tainted Pleasures
Nicols Fox's "Spoiled" is a disquieting and utterly convincing exposé of the American way of producing and eating food. [12-01-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Money Troubles
Author William Greider explores the increasing difficulties caused by unchecked wealth. [11-24-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Lost In Wonderland
O.B. Hardison, Jr., waxes estatic about the budding information age. [11-03-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Digging For Goldwater
The life and times of conservative icon Barry Goldwater. [10-13-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
No Fear Of Flying
Henry Kisor has written a beautiful first-person account of a deaf man learning to fly. [10-06-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Unmeaningful History
Cadillac Desert it ain't -- Alex Shoumatoff's overview of the American Southwest leaves much to be desired. [09-29-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
Nom De Plumage
Kenn Kaufman tells a fascinating tale of how he spent his youth criss-crossing the country in an attempt to capture a bird-watching record. [09-15-97]
Gregory McNamee, TUCSON WEEKLY
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