Armies of the Night
by Norman Mailer, 1968, The New American Library I picked this book up and decided to try it again as I had tried to read it back in 1968 in college when I belonged to a book club. I found … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Non-Fiction
In the Garden of Beasts, Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
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 →
The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan – A History of the End of the Cold War
by James Mann, 2010, Penguin Books This book was very disappointing, primarily because it was so repetitious. There were over sixty pages devoted to objections by various individuals to Reagan’s Berlin Wall speech. Many of the objections were repeated numerous … Continue reading →
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
by R. A. Scotti, Back Bay Books, 2004 I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed this book. I was expecting another fairly dry (no pun intended) description of the devastation wrought by this super storm. Instead, I got … Continue reading →
Killing Lincoln
by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard, 2011, Henry Holt and Company, LLC, New York This is an attempt to make history exciting as it gets the reader inside of the heads of the individuals involved. It succeeds as entertainment but … Continue reading →
JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
by James W. Douglass, 2010, Touchstone I really don’t know what to say regarding this book. Mr. Douglass has done a great deal of thinking and research on the Kennedy assassination and is convinced that the CIA orchestrated it because … Continue reading →
Tomatoland: How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit
by Barry Estabrook, 2012, Andrew McMeel Publishing Barry Estabrook does a good job of outlining what has happened to the tomato in Florida over the last few decades. It was particularly interesting because we live so close to the heart … Continue reading →
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
by Jared Diamond, first published in 1997 this edition has an afterword published in 2004, W.W. Norton & Company This book was interesting for me to read, although a bit of a chore. The work is very repetitious and sometimes … Continue reading →
Night
by Elie Wisel, 1972 (new translation by Marion Wiesel, 2006), Hill and Wang, a division of Farrer, Straus, and Giroux, New York Compelling, horrifying, saddening – one individual’s story of his Holocaust experience. Also, I might add, beautifully written. Reading … Continue reading →
Liar’s Poker
by Michael Lewis, 1989, W.W. Norton & Company, New York This is an interesting read, but, unlike most everybody who has reviewed this book, I didn’t find it that funny. On the cover of the book is a quote by Tom … Continue reading →