Entries Tagged as 'Bookit'

Laughing Whitefish Returns

May 16th, 2011 · 4 Comments

Anatomy of a Murder may have been John Voelker’s blockbuster, but the story he really wanted to tell was the toughest to write. MSU Press will issue a new edition of 1965’s Laughing Whitefish this summer.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Notable Authors on Tour

April 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment

The Michigan Notable Book Author Tour is underway at libraries across Michigan, giving readers an opportunity to meet the unforgettable characters inside this year’s 20 most outstanding Michigan-related books. Read

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

‘Everyday Klansfolk’ in Michigan

March 19th, 2011 · 4 Comments

The discovery of a single shoebox filled with Ku Klux Klan records from Newaygo County eventually led to a new book that provides the first detailed look at widespread Klan activity in Michigan in the 1920s.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

‘A Great and Bloody Sacrifice’

February 20th, 2011 · 3 Comments

Home state author Jack Dempsey’s first book, Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice, details Michigan’s historic role in the war in time for the upcoming sesquicentennial of the war’s start in April 1861.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

‘The American Working Class Mopping Up After Itself’

January 15th, 2011 · No Comments

Detroiter Paul Clemens’ new book, Punching Out, tells a larger story by detailing the deconstruction of the once grand Budd Plant, not far from where he grew up.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Literary Treats for Politics and Policy Geeks

December 17th, 2010 · 3 Comments

A baker’s dozen of notable 2010 books that explore compelling issues and personalities in the Michigan politics and public policy arena.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Appellate Judge Celebrates New Novel

November 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Several years — and many rewrites — later, William Whitbeck offers up his legal mystery based on a politician’s unsolved murder.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Prescriptions for a Healthier Economy

October 24th, 2010 · No Comments

MSU economist’s new book contends we must do more as a state to support education and foster entrepreneurship.

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Michigan’s Narrative in Stone

July 15th, 2010 · No Comments

Michigan’s Narrative in Stone by Jean B. Eggemeyer July 16, 2010 “It all started with a new digital camera and full tank of gas,” jokes John Fedynsky about his years-long quest to research and document all of Michigan’s county circuit courthouses. While on break from law school in the summer of 2003, Fedynsky, now an [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

Searching for Economic Prosperity

March 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment

Searching for Economic Prosperity by Jean B. Eggemeyer March 16, 2010 In recent years policymakers in Michigan and in Washington, D.C. have been looking for ways to foster the growth and development of high-tech, new economy businesses in order to provide stable economic growth, reduce unemployment and improve quality of life. In a new book [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Bookit

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →