Tracy Kidder

LiePad: Why Nonfiction Writers Must Never Change the Facts

Brandt Goldstein | Posted 05.21.2012

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Brandt Goldstein

Can a writer working in the realm of nonfiction ever change the facts because he's Making Art or Delivering an Important Message? The view of basically every respected journalist is Hell No. But a new book takes the opposite view.

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Why Conservative Christians So Often Fail the Common Good (Part I)

Richard T. Hughes | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard T. Hughes

Why do so many evangelical and fundamentalist Christians so often disregard two requirements that are central to the bible and to the teachings of Jesus: peacemaking and justice for the poor?

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Haiti Is Cursed -- By Our Ignorance

Farai Chideya | Posted 05.25.2011

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Farai Chideya

We have to realize that the meme of the "curse" has its own racial baggage. It's a way of disengaging Western history from the literal rubble of Haiti.

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Haiti: Partners in Health

Jennifer Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jennifer Schneider

I have spent the last few years studying engineers' responses to humanitarian crises. One book I've found inspiring during this research is Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains.

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Strength in What Remains: Tracy Kidder's Remarkable Story of a Refugee from African Genocide Who Gets Inspired in Haiti

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Can one person make a difference? Yeah right. Then I remembered the most powerful book I read in 2009 -- Strength in What Remains, by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tracy Kidder.

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