Samuel McCracken
Contributing writer
Samuel McCracken is a critic and essayist living in Boston.
Articles by Samuel McCracken
Book Review: "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
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Book Review: "The Man Who Ate His Boots"
The Tragic History of the Search for the Northwest Passage, by Anthony Brandt '61GSAS
Book Review: "The First Tycoon"
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Book Review: "The First Tycoon"
The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt, by T. J. Stiles '91GSAS
Review: "Names on the Land"
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Review: "Names on the Land"
A Historical Account of Place-Naming in the United States, by George R. Stewart '22GSAS
Review: "Conquering Gotham — A Gilded Age Epic"
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Review: "Conquering Gotham — A Gilded Age Epic"
The Construction of Penn Station and Its Tunnels, by Jill Jonnes '77JRN
Review: "Pigeons"
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Review: "Pigeons"
The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird, by Andrew D. Blechman '93JRN
Fidel's Man in Manhattan
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Fidel's Man in Manhattan
The Man Who Invented Fidel: Castro, Cuba, and Herbert L. Matthews of The New York Times, by Anthony DePalma
Whites and Wrongs
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Whites and Wrongs
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America, by Ira Katznelson