Thomas Cahill's Books
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MassLive, October 14, 2009
...It?s time to write a new bestseller along the lines of Thomas Cahill?s bestseller ?How the Irish Saved Civilization,? but this time let?s call it ?How Michael Carney Helped Save the Irish Language and Culture.? Carney, 89, a Springfield...
CathNews, May 29, 2009
...Thomas Cahill's A Saint on Death Row is an angry condemnation of the Texas criminal justice system. At the urging of a Chicago friend, Cahill stopped to visit Dominique Green...
Our Weekly, April 16, 2009
...by Thomas Cahill Imagine meeting someone with the power to tell you everything that will happen to you in the future. He can see the good and bad, the ups and downs...
Paste Magazine, March 15, 2009
...Bestselling historian ?s new book, A Saint On Death Row, offers an additional case study of the second scenario Bono mentioned?the seemingly star-crossed lives that nevertheless have a redeeming purpose in this frequently cruel world. The saint in...
Boston Globe, March 8, 2009
...a Mafia Insider,' by Louis Ferrante (Harper) 'A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green,' by Thomas Cahill (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) 'Decoding the Heavens: A 2,000-Year-Old Computer - and the Century-Long Search to Discover Its Secrets,' by Jo...
PublishersWeekly.com, January 14, 2009
...1988 and launched her own imprint two years later. Nan counts among her authors Peter Ackroyd, Margaret Atwood, Thomas Cahill, Pat Conroy, Jim Crace, Ian McEwan, Antonia Fraser, Thomas Keneally, and Barry Unsworth. Reporting directly to Bill Thomas will...
South Bend Tribune, December 14, 2008
...likes, she reads their other books ? Sue Grafton?s ?ABC? mysteries, ?The Hinges of History? series by Thomas Cahill and anything by Bill Bryson are examples. Cahill combines politics, religion and history in this series and two early books...
Alternation, October 18, 2009
...a form of this. I am about to begin reading St. Patrick’s “Confessions.” According to Thomas Cahill, author of How the Irish Saved Civilization , Patrick is more cheerful than the more famous confessor, St. Augustine. I’ll see if that comes...
Ockham's Razor, September 27, 2009
...got them off of a yearly bestseller list or something similar.) Read: How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill. There are a lot of pretty negative reviews on this one, but I found it pretty interesting. (Luckily, I have almost no memory for...
Small-leaved Shamrock, September 5, 2009
...a book this summer on the history of the Emerald Isle. Visit How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill posted at A Canadian Family for her look at the book that broadened her horizons. As Evelyn says, "There's more to the Irish than shamrocks and...
[Technorati] Tag results for blog, August 20, 2009
...and the Irish. How the Irish Saved Civilization is the first in a series of books organized around Thomas Cahill’s notion of Hinges of History . He invites us to shift our focus away from wars and “narratives of human pain” and focus instead on...
Book News, Book Reviews and Recommendations :: The, May 13, 2009
...On October 26, 2004, Dominique Green, thirty, was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Texas. Arrested at the age of eighteen in the fatal shooting of a man during a robbery outside a Houston convenience store, Green may have taken part in the...
Bill's 'Faith Matters' Weblog, March 28, 2009
...launching into our critique." Good advice. * A Saint on Death Row: The Story of Dominique Green , by Thomas Cahill. The author of How the Irish Saved Civilization (and several other books) takes a devastating look at capital punishment here by...
/* the open window *\, March 24, 2009
...Dickens. (I love Christmas stories.... love them!) 28) Work of non-fiction ? How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews by Thomas Cahill, 29) Who is your favorite writer? Jane Austen, Bodie Thoene, Karen Hancock (new),...
Good News in the Wilderness, March 15, 2009
...nor poetic. They are blunt and brief. In his book The Gifts of the Jews , contemporary author Thomas Cahill writes about the Ten Commandments. He says this: “Most scholars have come to the conclusion that the original sentences were. . .so brief....
Stephen's MySpace Blog, March 9, 2009
...Lost on Planet China , J. Maarten Troost The Compleat Gentleman , Brad Miner Desire of the Everlasting Hills , Thomas Cahill Evolution for Everyone , David Sloan Wilson Pompeii , Robert Harris (Click titles for more detailed comments.) I began this week...
Stephen's MySpace Blog, March 2, 2009
...Books this Update : What the Buddha Taught , Walpola Rahula The Gifts of the Jews , Thomas Cahill 10 Things Your Minister Wants to Tell You , Oliver Thomas Imperium , Robert Harris The Roman Mind , M.L. Clarke This week's reading was an interesting...
Paul's Ponderings, December 7, 2008
...the end you will come away with a little more knowledge. 2. How the Irish Saved Civilization by Thomas Cahill: A great history book. I loved Cahill’s style of relating history through telling stories. What I really liked about this book is that it...
