by Adam Higginbotham, 2019, Simon & Schuster Excellent book although somewhat difficult to digest due to all the individual characters involved and their Russian names which make it hard to follow. I was not aware of the causes of the … Continue reading →
By Bryan Stephenson, 2014, Speigel and Grau This is the story of a young man who founded a non-profit organization in Atlanta to fight for overturning prison sentences for individuals who were unfairly convicted or sentenced in the South. The … Continue reading →
by Bob Woodward, 2018, Simon & Shuster, New York I was very disappointed in this book. It is not much more than a recounting of conversations that occurred between Trump and his aides. The book, although the events were chronological, … Continue reading →
by Brett Baier and Catherine Whitney, 2017, William Morrow The more I read this book, the more I didn’t like it. It’s an overview of Ike’s days in the White House, but is built on the premise that his last … Continue reading →
by David Grann, 2007, Vintage Books, A Dividion of Random House LLC, New York This book chronicles the murders of members of the Osage Indian tribe in Oklahoma in the early part of the 20th century and the efforts of … Continue reading →
by Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali, 1997, W.W. Norton & Company, New York This book is a detailes account of the events that led up to and took place during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The research that went into the … Continue reading →
by Annie Jacobsen, 2015, Back Bay Books This is a fascinating story of how the United States flouted its own laws to bring Nazi scientists to America. After WWII, relations with the Russians quickly deteriorated into the Cold War. Both … Continue reading →
by Douglas L. Wilson, 1998, Alfred A. Knopf, New York I had always eyed this book as it surely targeted a subject that I was interested in: the transformation of Abrahams Lincoln from a backwoods youth to the person who had … Continue reading →
by Ron Chernow, 2005, Penguin Books This is a fantastic book that is chock-full of information about Alexander Hamilton, but, more importantly, his imprint on the structure of our federal government. It also provides a lot of insight regarding the … Continue reading →
Origins of a Catastrophe, by Warren Zimmerman, 1999, Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York Warren Zimmerman was the last U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Balkan War broke out in the 1990’s. The book relates his … Continue reading →