 "The New York Observer (New York, NY)")
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Butler's Mammoth Ambition Buys Transient Immortality.(Culture)
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Byline: Patricia O'Toole
Nicholas Miraculous: The Amazing Career of the Redoubtable Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, by Michael Rosenthal. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 528 pages, $35.
To begin at the end: Nicholas Murray Butler, household name for half a century, is now as obscure as Chester Greenwood, inventor of the earmuff.
An inordinately ambitious man who sought and won place after place among the elites of his day, Butler hobnobbed with Theodore Roosevelt and Benito Mussolini, collected a Nobel Peace Prize, and for decades presided over Columbia ...
 "Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)")
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Earle, like his father, is one of a kind.(GO!)
Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)
; ...arrangement and delivery, Earle sounds as if he has discovered...fact he has created a new one. Earle pays his last respect to a larger...driving man on "They Killed John Henry." With an irresistible...the spirit of the original, Earle takes a well-known tale of...
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Earle doc chronicles a tough singer-activist
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...American Boy" is a kinetic diary of Earle's 2002 tour that set off in the wake of his controversial "John Walker's Blues" ballad which explored...fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan. Earle wrote that Lindh was "Just an American...
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Steve Earle On the Road To Comeback
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...Appearing solo acoustic this week, Earle will play his best-known material...and `Copperhead Road.' " Formerly Earle's agent at the William Morris agency, John Dotson of Nashville has been Earle's manager for the past two months...
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 "Portland Press Herald (Maine)")
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EARLE TAKES A FEW DETOURS BUT STILL ON THAT `HILLBILLY HIGHWAY'
Newspaper article from: Portland Press Herald (Maine)
; ...broadcasters are eager to play Earle's music - which ranges...bluegrass. It's because Earle, ever the topical songwriter...tune last fall called John Walker's Blues. The...kid instead. The song John Walker's Blues was on Earle's Jerusalem album...
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EARLE: HE'S THE DUKE OF DIVERSITY
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...of course, it is enough. Earle shares the trait with fellow...and political point. Still, Earle's opening to "Old Friend...made to Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp (stamina, sound, politics), but Earle seems very much his own man...
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 "Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)")
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EARLE RUSHES TO RECOUP LOST TIME SINGER SONGWRITER DODGED A BULLET WHEN HE GAVE UP DRUGS.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...against the death penalty. Earle, who plays at the Orpheum...prime time." Then last fall, Earle unleashed the politically fueled...publicity for a song expressing how John Lindh might have been enticed by the Taliban. Earle also takes a staunch anti...
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 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
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Earle takes radical view in new song
Newspaper article from: Post-Tribune (IN)
; ...PRINTED VERSION Steve Earle's song "John Walker's Blues...such as Toby Keith, Earle seeks to understand the enemy on "John Walker's Blues...idea that he wrote "John Walker's Blues...attention-getter. Earle said he's refused...
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EARLE REMAINS INDEPENDENT AS EVER.(RHYTHM)
Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
; ...Earle's publicist. Steve Earle will play at 8 p.m. Saturday...4646. If you can't get to Earle's show, tune into Country...an hourlong special featuring Earle in concert. * Singer-songwriter...the Fellowship Hall of St. John's Lutheran Church, 322 E...
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Earle offers no apologies for 'John Walker's Blues'
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; Earle offers no apologies for 'John Walker's Blues...such as Toby Keith, Earle seeks to understand the enemy on "John Walker's Blues...idea that he wrote "John Walker's Blues...attention-getter. Earle said he's refused...
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Steve Earle is unapologetic about his controversial song `John Walker's Blues'
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream
; ...such as Toby Keith, Earle seeks to understand the enemy on John Walker's Blues, one...fans are familiar with Earle's politics. That...the idea that he wrote John Walker's Blues as an attention-getter. Earle said he's refused millions...
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