15 best nonfiction books of 2011: CSMonitor picks

15 bests nonfiction titles of 2011, according to the Monitor's reviewers

11. "Rin Tin Tin," by Susan Orlean

In Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend (Simon & Schuster, 325 pp.) New Yorker writer Susan Orlean tells the larger-than-life story behind canine movie star Rin Tin Tin. Monitor reviewer Heller McAlpin calls Orlean’s book “an eloquent, powerful inquiry into ‘how we create heroes and what we want from them,’ and about what endures in our culture.” (CSMonitor.com, 9/27/11)

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