Holy Hullabaloos, Jay Wexler, June 2009, paperback original, $16.00, 978-0-8070-0044-1
Boston Globe; review ran Sunday, July 5th
“The tour-guide device might have bombed in a lesser writer’s hands. It works for Wexler because of his gift for filtering arcane legal sludge into clear explanations, his keen eye for detail, and his self-mocking, zanily irreverent sensibility.”
West Coast Live (radio); author interview July 4th
Bay Area News Group; coverage included at least ten of the group’s local daily papers, including the Oakland Tribune, Contra Costa Times, and San Jose Mercury News
Oakland Tribune; a front page teaser with an image above the Masthead and the story on the front page in the Arts and Entertainments sections in all the papers on July 6th
San Francisco Chronicle; Raday’s profile in the “On the Couch” section on Sunday, July 5th
“Sophia, who has chronicled the story of their life together in a recently published memoir, Love in Condition Yellow, reaches to stroke her husband's buzz-cut hair. ‘Being with Blair shows that it's possible to stop slinging mud and make the world a better place.’”
“There may be no better way to understand the muddle that is U.S. immigration policy than by reading these portraits of people who cross the border in hopes of a better life . . . The Death of Josseline is an excellent way to understand—on a human level—the ebb and flow of human labor across political boundaries.”
—Ted Robbins, Southwest Correspondent, National Public Radio
American Privacy, Frederick S. Lane, November 2009, cloth, 978-0-8070-4441-4
“Frederick Lane's American Privacy is a highly-readable history of the right to privacy in America. It brings to life the people, debates, and events that have shaped our current protections of privacy. Lane compellingly demonstrates how our past struggles in reconciling privacy and new technologies can shed light on the struggles we face today.”
—Daniel J. Solove, author of Understanding Privacy and professor, George Washington University Law School
“Frederick Lane's timely and lucid history lays bare how attacks on privacy by government and industry threaten democracy itself. Essential reading.”
—Christopher Finan, president, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression
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