by Daniel James Brown, 2013, Viking Penguin Group This book is meticulously researched, well-written, and the author obviously has a great love for his subject. It’s about the crew from the University of Washington that won the nine-man rowing Olympic … Continue reading →
by Robert Harris, 2014, Vintage Reprint Edition I think this is an excellent book! It is an historical novel about the Dreyfus affair and one of the officers in the military who was involved in the arrest of Dreyfus. He … Continue reading →
by Stephen Kinzer, 2014, St. Martin’s Griffin This book traces the lives and careers of John Foster Dulles and his brother, Allen. It is interesting in that the author contrasts the personalities of each of them and shows how they reacted … Continue reading →
by Louis de Bernières, 2004, Vintage Books, A Division of Random House Inc., New York This book was recommended by Johanna Hanink, a classics professor at Brown. who accompanied us on our cruise, Pearls of Antiquity, to Greece and Turkey. … Continue reading →
by Steven R. Roberts with Alexander von Svoboda, 2013, Rouge River Press, Dearborn, MI This story is about a youth who was drafted into Hitler’s army and survived incredible hardship. At the age of 15 Alexander Svoboda was sent to … Continue reading →
by Michael Grunwald, 2006, Simon and Shuster Paperbacks, New York Prior to reading this book, I really didn’t understand the reasons why the Everglades are such a critical component of the South Florida ecosystem. The bottom line is that, without … Continue reading →
by Michael Moss, 2012, Random House, New York Our men’s book club did this book and I was initially skeptical that I would get much out of it. I was wrong. The book provided me with a great deal of … Continue reading →
by William Manchester, 1984, Unabridged Audiobook version read by Frederick Davidson, 2012, Blackstone Audio This is a very good book, enhanced greatly by the reading of Frederick Davidson. There were times when I thought I was listening to Winston, himself, … Continue reading →
by Erik Larson, 2011, Broadway Paperbacks, New York This is a fascinating book, well-written and extremely well-researched. I was amazed at how well the author could reconstruct events that occurred so many years ago. I couldn’t help compare his work … Continue reading →
by Joseph Conrad, originally published in 1903, 2005, Blackstone Audio, read by Frederick Davidson This is an incredibly good book given that it doesn’t have much of a plot and it was written by a Polish person whose English was … Continue reading →