The Spanish Flu, which raged across the world as a pandemic from 1918-1920, infected one out of three people IN THE WORLD (500 million out of 1.5 billion). It killed anywhere from 10-20% of the people it infected, so somewhere between 50 and 100 million people died. If the upper range is correct, it killed […]
This is the second book I’ve read this year about the Golden State Warriors. The first book was Golden Days by Jack McCallum, which dealt with one season and specifically on Jerry West’s role with the team. This book is broader in scope as it tells how the team was turned around by Joe Lacob and […]
This is not a new book – written in 2007 – but I read something about it a few months ago and so have had it on my ‘to-read’ list for this year. I’m glad I did. It started out a little slow, but after a couple of chapters I started enjoying it and really […]
The book is a biography of Chester Arthur and the title refers to his becoming president after James Garfield was assassinated. Arthur had been added to the ticket purely as a sop to the New York contingent at the Republican convention, not because anyone thought he would make a good president. So he was unexpected […]
This book is a collection of speeches Scalia gave throughout his time as an Appeals and Supreme Court Judge on many different occasions and many different topics. As you might imagine, a man of his stature and position was asked to speak quite a bit. The book came out last year – a little over […]
I think I’ve read every book Harris has written except for one, and enjoyed them all. This is no exception. The novel is about the Munich Conference in 1938, wherein Great Britain and France completely capitulated to Hitler and gave him the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia with the hope that it would keep him from starting […]
I read a review of this book that really intrigued me, and I’ve never really known a lot about the Book of Common Prayer (did you know our traditional wedding vows come from it?), so I asked the local library to purchase a copy and I read it. The book tells the story of the […]
Short booklet by Tim Keller that’s easy to read and has a great message. The main thesis of the book is that as believers, we don’t need to think more highly or lowly of ourselves. True Christian humility lies in thinking of ourselves less. The person who struggles with self-esteem issues is typically the person […]
I really enjoyed this book. It’s essentially about Jerry West and specifically about his role in two different NBA seasons – 1971-72 as a member of the Laker team that set the all-time record for wins in a season (since broken twice) and the all-time record of 33 games in a row (that still stands […]
Read this book because I was so inspired/impressed by Taylor after reading his biography last month. This is a devotional on Numbers 6 and 7 – not exactly common passages to write a devotional about. Taylor wrote this as a result of coming to these chapters in his Bible reading during a particularly discouraging time […]
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