Here’s “The Making of a Killer,” my review of No Beast So Fierce: The Terrifying True Story of the Champawat Tiger, the Deadliest Animal in History by Dane Huckelbridge, on page A19 of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, February 5, 2019.
This is the 21st book I’ve reviewed for the Wall Street Journal, and the 34th I’ve reviewed professionally.
Here’s the full list.
Here’s “Blood on the Tracks,” my review of The Edge of Anarchy: the Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America by Jack Kelly, on page A17 of the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. I enjoyed this one. Kelly does a fine job telling the story of this important-but-neglected episode.
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This is the 20th book I’ve reviewed for the Wall Street Journal, and the 33rd I’ve reviewed professionally. (Here’s the full list.)
Here’s “Entrepreneurs For The Union,” my review of Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation by Jeffrey D. Wert in the Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, November 6, 2018.
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Here’s the full list of the 32 books I’ve reviewed for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the New York Times, NPR, and others.
San Francisco as it was when John Mackay arrived in 1851.
“New Map Reveals Ships Buried Below San Francisco” by Greg Miller for National Geographic, including an incredible photo of Yerba Buena Cove at the height of the Gold Rush.
In “‘The Bonanza King’ captures Mackay,” John Barrette reviewed THE BONANZA KING for the Nevada Appeal, July 31, 2018.
Here’s “Why we need government to safeguard against the new robber barons,” my perspective piece for the Washington Post’s “Made by History” series, about what we can learn about the modern media landscape from John Mackay’s “Cable War” with robber baron Jay Gould, and about the dangers of monopolies and cartels.
Here’s “Tigers Over a Rising Sun,” my review of A Few Planes for China by Eugenie Buchan and The Flying Tigers: The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan by Sam Kleiner for the Wall Street Journal, July 21-22, 2018.
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Here’s the full list of the 31 books I’ve reviewed for The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, and others.
THE BONANZA KING in the New Yorker, July 23, 2018!
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Luca Starmer interviewed me about THE BONANZA KING for the Reno News & Review. The fruits of that conversation appeared as “True Tales” in the newspaper on July 26, 2018.
“Crouch’s enthusiasm about the era is contagious. He paints a vivid picture of our slice of the American West.”
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