by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, 2014, Public Affairs, A Member of Perseus Book Group, New York I noticed this book in my son’s library and thought it would be interesting to read as I didn’t know the details of the American … Continue reading →
by Rosemary Mahoney, 2007, Back Bay Books, Little, Brown and Company This is a somewhat odd book written, I think, by a somewhat odd woman. Who would want to do what she did? Row down the Nile River by herself … Continue reading →
by Rex Bowman & Carlos Santos, 2022, University of Virginia Press, Charlottsville and London This book is one of the choices for our men’s book club. It is well-written and covers the life of a forgotten journalist and author who … Continue reading →
by Trevor Noah, 2016, Kindle Version, One World (an imprint of Random House), New York This book is an autobiography of Trevor Noah who grew up as a mixed-race boy in South Africa shortly after the fall of apartheid. Despite … Continue reading →
by Martin Dugard, Kindle edition, 2001, Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. Â The book is interesting but it’s not a true biography as the author makes up scenarios that are likely but not necessarily valid. He … Continue reading →
by Mike Duncan, 2021, Audiobook narrated by the author, PublicAffairs This is a pretty good biography about an amazing individual. Lafayette was a person whose life story is almost unbelievable. He was present in the American Revolution at almost every … Continue reading →
by Allen C. Guelzo, 2021, Kindle Edition, Alfred A.Knopf, New York  This is a balanced, well-researched, and well-written biography of Robert E. Lee. The author delves into the aspects of Lee’s life that made him the person he was. … Continue reading →
by Nelson Mandela, 2008, Kindle Version, Little, Brown and Company  I read most of this book while on a trip to South Africa. It provided me with an understanding of what the country had gone through under apartheid and … Continue reading →
by Candice Millard, 2017, Anchor Books This is the story of Winston Churchill’s escape after he was captured when he was a war correspondent as a young man. The book is well-written, and the author provides a great deal of … Continue reading →
Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath, by Bill Browder, 2022, Kindle Edition, Simon & Schuster When I started to read this book, I thought I wasn’t going to like it as I … Continue reading →