This is somewhat of a random book both to write and to select to read. It’s a sort-of history of Oklahoma City written from the standpoint of it being a unique place with a unique history and civic makeup. The book is not exhaustive by any means, and the author builds much of the story […]
The author begins this book with a fairly provocative statement: In the last few years I have given up on the many medical measures – cancer screenings, annual exams, Pap smears, for example – expected of a responsible person with health insurance. The reason she’s done this – she says later in the chapter – […]
Enormously comprehensive book about Al Capone and the effort to shut him down mounted by Eliot Ness and his ‘Untouchables.’ If you like gangsters and like Prohibition history, this is a really good read. It’s essentially a biography of both men and gives a great picture of what Chicago was like in the 1920s and […]
Three things I didn’t like about this book: Baier tells about an event that happened less than a year after the assassination attempt on Reagan when he threw out the first pitch on opening day of the 1982 MLB season at a Baltimore Orioles game. He says that Reagan showed how well he’d recovered from […]
I read this book because I read an article on the FIRE movement (Financial Independence Retire Early) that referred to it as the Bible of the lifestyle. It was originally written in the early nineties and spawned a whole movement of people who decided they didn’t want to work 9-5 jobs their whole life but […]
I don’t think I’ve ever read a (an?) historical book that was more well-researched than this one. The amount of information in the story and its breadth of scope (he tells the story from both the American and British perspectives) are enormously impressive. The author obviously spent a ton of time researching before he wrote. […]
The author is an assistant professor at Duke Divinity School. She’s a believer (I think) and has faced numerous health issues in her life. The latest and most severe is that she’s been diagnosed with a terminal form of colon cancer. This book is about her dealing with her diagnosis and reconciling her circumstances to […]
First let me say that I love just about anything having to do with water. I love driving over bodies of water, I love looking at dams, and perhaps my favorite place on earth is a marina just about anywhere. If you planned a trip with an itinerary consisting solely of visiting dams and marinas, […]
This book was recommended to me as an interesting read about a very little-known event of major significance. My take on it is that it’s a fairly compelling read, but the event it describes didn’t seem as groundbreaking as the author tried to make it sound. The story takes place in the Jim Crow south […]
The book is ostensibly about two college football powers in the early twentieth century and specifically about a game where they met in 1912. What the book is really is a detailed account of the Carlisle Indian School and its football coach – Glenn “Pop” Warner – and its most famous athlete – Jim Thorpe […]
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