by Gilbert NMO Morris | Mar 26, 2023
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy By Anand Giridharadas. Knopf, 2022. Hardcover, 352 pages, $30. Reviewed by Gilbert NMO Morris. Inflection points are transitional and transformative: And so are temporary dynamics of the...
by Gilbert NMO Morris | Jun 7, 2020
Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy Is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth—and How to Fix It by Dambisa Moyo. Basic Books, 2018. Hardcover, 296 pages, $30. Reviewed by Gilbert NMO Morris Dambisa Moyo is exhaustless, insightful, even passionate concerning the evolving...
by Gilbert NMO Morris | May 6, 2018
The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan by Sebastian Mallaby. Penguin Books, 2016, 2017. Paperback, 781 pages, $22. Gilbert NMO Morris Biography is an interplay of perceptible and surprising cross-currents, and the life of Alan Greenspan is no...
by Gilbert NMO Morris | Feb 18, 2018
The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke by Jeffrey Stewart. Oxford University Press, 2018. Hardcover, 932 pages, $30. Gilbert NMO Morris One gets the sense, not even halfway through Jeffrey Stewart’s epochal biography of Alain Locke, that Locke touched aspects of one’s...