Lessons
by Ian McEwan, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Simon McBurney, Recorded Books This book is about a person who has a torrid affair with his 25-year-old piano teacher at age 14 and then goes on to lead a fairly miserable life. … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Non-Fiction
Beneath a Scarlet Sky
by Mark Sullivan, 2017, Lake Union Publishing This is a very interesting book about a boy/young man living in Milan durring WWII. It chronicles his experiences, first guiding Jews over the mountains to Switzerland, and later his role as a … Continue reading →
The Gunfighters: How Texas Made the West Wild
by Bryan Burroughs, 2025, Audiobook narrated by Fred Sanders, Penguin Audio This book details the history and culture of the gunfighters in the West from after the Civil War until the turn of the 20th century. The author dispels the … Continue reading →
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
by Ed Conway, 2023, Kindle Edition, Knopf I found this to be an extremely interesting book. It delves into the basic materials (sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium) that are used to build just about everything. I had no … Continue reading →
Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan’s Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them,
by Timothy Eagan, 2023, Kindle Edition. The book relates the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana starting in 1923. A man from Oklahoma abandoned his wife and child in Oklahoma and moved to Indiana where his charisma allowed … Continue reading →
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
by Jonathan Haidt, 2024, Kindle Edition, Penguin Press This book focuses on the causes of the heightened anxiety of the young persons of Generation Z. The author basically makes three points in this book: Haidt makes a compelling case that … Continue reading →
Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment
by Allen Guelzo, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Justin Price Let me first say that I am a big fan of Allen Guelzo. He has an astounding grasp of historical facts and concepts. I viewed his online Great Courses course, Our … Continue reading →
An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960’s
by Doris Kearns Goodwin, 2024, Simon & Schuster, New York I have read other books by Doris Goodwin and think highly of her as an author and historian. This book is quite different from her other books as it is … Continue reading →
The American Story, Conversations with Master Historians
by David Rubenstein, 2019, Simon & Shuster, New York This book is a collection of edited transcripts of conversations that the author, David Rubenstein, had with some well-known American historians. The conversations were held at the Library of Congress beginning … Continue reading →
A Toxic Inconvenience, Red Tide and Blue-Green Algae on Florida’s Coast
by Nicholas G. Penniman IV, 2019, Barringer Publishing, Naples, Florida. After dinner one night in Naples our dinner host offered to lend me some books. I selected this one for two reasons: The topic interested me as I was in … Continue reading →