will be able to fill a similar role with the Warriors, where he is a perfect compliment to Curry and could help the Warriors cover up for the loss of Klay Thompson, if he’s included in a trade package for Timberwolves power forward Kevin Love as has been rumored.

The fourth-overall pick in the 2004 draft by the Clippers, Livingston’s season with the Nets was the best of his career. He suffered a devastating knee injury with the Clippers in 2007 and has spent the past several years fighting to reclaim his place in the league bouncing among seven different teams and spending some time in the D-League.

Now Livingston is reaping the rewards of his hard work, giving himself the kind of long-term security he has worked to achieve.

“It’s"Hotel: An American History"

Page 69 of Hotel: An American History is totally unrepresentative of the overall work in one respect: it’s a solid field of text with no visual material, whereas the book contains almost 140 illustrations. Telling the story of the hotel is in large part about architecture, and so the images are essential to really showing my readers what this distinctive institution was all about.

In other respects, though, page 69 is indeed representative of the book because it deals with one of its basic themes — how hotels went from being elite, exclusionary establishments to places that were sufficiently open to the public for one newspaper writer to call them “palaces of the public.”

In the first chapter of the book, I explain that the first generation