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2 weeks ago | 
unionleader.com | Kevin Canfield
”Minnesota’s Most Notorious Mobster: The Making and Breaking of Kid Cann,” By Ron de Beaulieu. Publisher: The History Press, 172 pages. $26. The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s research unearths a few more.
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3 weeks ago | 
thebrunswicknews.com | Kevin Canfield
The subject of Ron de Beaulieu's new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld's arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author's research unearths a few more. But history doesn't remember him as "Joe Miller" or "Dr. Ferguson." Instead, writes de Beaulieu - a Macalester College grad who lives in Minneapolis - Blumenfeld is most commonly remembered as " Kid Cann," a handle he "grew to hate."
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3 weeks ago | 
thederrick.com | Kevin Canfield
The subject of Ron de Beaulieu’s new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld’s arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author’s research unearths a few more.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Kevin Canfield
The subject of Ron de Beaulieu's new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld's arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author's research unearths a few more.
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1 month ago | 
sfchronicle.com | Kevin Canfield
Vicki DeArmon’s memoir unveils her path from waitress to San Francisco publishing mogul with Foghorn Press in the 1980s.
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1 month ago | 
startribune.com | Kevin Canfield
The subject of Ron de Beaulieu's new book is a notorious bootlegger with a talent for misdirection. After one of Isadore Blumenfeld's arrests, authorities said he used seven aliases. The author's research unearths a few more.
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1 month ago | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Kevin Canfield
Amid hourly news flashes on tariffs and rising food prices, Paul Rice’s new book is as timely as the catch of the day. “I had no idea that we would be in the pickle we’re in,” said Rice, CEO of Fair Trade USA, the Oakland-based nonprofit focused on ethically sourced products.
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1 month ago | 
crimereads.com | Kevin Canfield
In 1857, British scholars held a contest to decipher the inscriptions on a 3,000-year-old clay artwork. Today, this would be considered a rarefied pursuit, but in Victorian London, the event enjoyed a keen audience. Mid-19th century Britons were besotted with the distant past, their fervor stimulated by remarkable objects from since-vanished civilizations, which were being pried from the earth in the Middle East. Archaeologists became some of the country’s most famous people.
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2 months ago | 
datebook.sfchronicle.com | Kevin Canfield
Dave Eggers and coauthors, including Michael Lewis, release “Who Is Government?” to counter stereotypes about civil servants.
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2 months ago | 
crimereads.com | Kevin Canfield
In Argentine writer Agustina Bazterrica’s Tender is the Flesh—a 2017 dystopian novel that won a major award in her country—“mass hysteria” ensues when a deadly virus seems to leap from animals to humans. In its broad strokes, the story presaged the spread of Covid in 2020. Her latest, a character-driven horror novel, envisions a different sort of catastrophe, one brought about by capitalism’s excesses.
