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Category: Book and Movie Reviews

Who Would Write for Wikipedia?
December 16, 2020December 16, 2020Sandford
Les Rose: My Father’s Violence
December 10, 2020December 10, 2020Sandford
Peter Morgan’s Gloriana
November 30, 2020November 30, 2020Sandford
City Hall: A Valentine to Public Service
September 16, 2020September 16, 2020Sandford
Pres. Clinton and the Quebec Referendum
September 7, 2020September 7, 2020Sandford
Remembering Absence of Malice
August 27, 2020August 27, 2020Sandford
My Five Most Popular Posts
August 20, 2020August 20, 2020Sandford
Joe, Pierre, and Stephen in Healey’s 1979
May 15, 2020May 16, 2020Sandford
Richard Jewell: Eastwood’s Medal Shot?
December 29, 2019December 29, 2019Sandford
Mackenzie King at Midnight
December 21, 2019December 21, 2019Sandford
Turandot: A MeToo Disrupter
November 6, 2019November 13, 2019Sandford
Gaffes by Hillary and Amy
September 3, 2019October 6, 2019Sandford
Storynomics, the Book: Truth in Marketing?
April 2, 2018October 6, 2019Sandford
Darkest Hour and Alternative Facts
January 2, 2018October 5, 2019Sandford
Darkest Hour – Not Even Remotely Based on a True Story
September 18, 2017October 5, 2019Sandford
Richard Posner’s Academic Hyper-Productivity
December 3, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Chaos Monkeys: An Unfinished Bildungsroman
August 2, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
The Long Form Census and Brand Command
May 25, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Eye in the Sky: Utilitarianism in a High-Tech War
April 4, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Does Robert McKee’s Storynomics Persuade?
March 24, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Just Another “Story” Book
February 29, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
The Koch Brothers(’) Take on Business Fiction
February 22, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Not Hooked by “The Hook”
February 15, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
Madoff: Transfixed by Tragedy
February 8, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
I Disagree with Robert McKee
January 13, 2016October 6, 2019Sandford
The Big Short: Completing the Financial Crisis Trilogy
December 25, 2015October 6, 2019Sandford
Spotlight: Heroic but not Triumphal
November 21, 2015October 6, 2019Sandford
Sherlock Holmes or Robert Langdon?
April 5, 2015December 11, 2020Sandford
David Zussman’s Off and Running
July 15, 2014December 11, 2020Sandford
Captain Phillips: In a Different Course
October 23, 2013December 11, 2020Sandford
Susan Delacourt’s Shopping for Votes
October 17, 2013December 11, 2020Sandford
Our Man in Tehran: A Revised Story
September 28, 2013December 11, 2020Sandford
Argo and The Canadian Caper
May 12, 2013December 11, 2020Sandford
Saying “Si” to “No”
March 24, 2013December 2, 2020Sandford
Zero Dark Thirty: An “Heroic” Narrative?
January 14, 2013December 11, 2020Sandford
Lincoln: A Roll-Call Vote as High Art
November 12, 2012December 11, 2020Sandford
Arbitrage: Actually, it was Fraud
October 9, 2012October 6, 2019Sandford
Footnote: A Moral Tale in Academe
March 28, 2012October 6, 2019Sandford
The Iron Lady: Thatcher’s Regrets
January 17, 2012December 11, 2020Sandford
Professors’ Lives: Writing History or Doing Social Science?
January 2, 2012October 6, 2019Sandford
A Tale of Three Steves and a Bill
December 17, 2011December 11, 2020Sandford
Depicting Dot-com Disasters
December 9, 2011December 11, 2020Sandford
The Best Laid Plans: A Great Satire
June 15, 2011December 11, 2020Sandford
Bertie’s Stammer or The King’s Speech ?
January 23, 2011December 10, 2020Sandford
Eliot Spitzer and the Politics of Sex
December 11, 2010December 10, 2020Sandford
Fair Game: Speaking, Mumbling, or Shouting Truth to Power?
December 6, 2010December 10, 2020Sandford
Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job: The Treason of the Technicians
November 14, 2010December 10, 2020Sandford
The Social Network and the Entrepreneurship Genre
October 26, 2010December 10, 2020Sandford
Waiting for Superman: Too Many Stories
October 17, 2010October 6, 2019Sandford
Play it Again, Stone: A Review of Money Never Sleeps
October 4, 2010October 6, 2019Sandford
In the Loop? Not Really
November 26, 2009October 6, 2019Sandford
Mensch and Menschkeit
October 1, 2009December 10, 2020Sandford
Engaging the Bright Boys and Bright Girls
September 23, 2009October 6, 2019Sandford
La Classe (The Book)
August 27, 2009October 6, 2019Sandford
Allan Blakeney’s An Honourable Calling
May 1, 2009October 6, 2019Sandford
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29: I Was There
September 8, 2008December 8, 2020Sandford

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