About the Author
Judith Nies has worked as a journalist, teacher, historian, researcher, and corporate speechwriter. The author of three books, including the classic biography Nine Women, she teaches a course on memoir as history and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Obras por Judith Nies
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Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Swampscott, Massachusetts, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Ocupações
- journalist
historian
speechwriter
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 5
- Membros
- 390
- Popularidade
- #62,076
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 11
I’m used to people being wrong about Vegas, but for something to be so flagrantly inaccurate to appear on page 4, I had to put the book down. Downtown LV, Springs Preserve (2007), the Las Vegas Post Office and Courthouse (1933, National Historic Register, now houses the Mob Museum), the not one, not two, but seventy freaking five (75!!!) public parks in the care of the City of Las Vegas all beg to differ, Judith.
I’ll concede that Vegas doesn’t necessarily prioritize public history, but to say there’s nothing is brazenly ignorant and does not assure me as a reader that the rest of this "non-fiction" book is in any way factual or well-researched.… (mais)