I enjoyed reading Hoover by Kenneth Whyte very much. It’s an insightful look into a complicated man with a complicated legacy
I Escaped from Auschwitz by Rudolf Vrba, originally published in the 1960s, is an important testament to courage, honesty, and selfless bravery
Blood, Sweat & Chrome by Kyle Buchanan is an oral history of the decades it took to make the award winning movie Mad Max: Fury Road.
The 007 Diaries: Filming Live and Let Die is honest. Moore loses his temper at the productions, argues with his wife but appreciates his hand in life
This book, more than anything, is a tribute to those who crawled to freedom, the Bielski brothers, and the Christians who helped the survivors
King Ludwig II comes off as a loner, a tortured soul who wants to live in a fairy tale and resents his station in life as a king with no kingdom
I didn’t find Framed by John Grisham and Jim McCloskey as astonishing as the title suggests, but more enraging, alarming, and terrifying
Leaves of Fire (עלים מן האש) by Simcha Guterman is not all doom and gloom. The author has a healthy sense of humor, which I would assume is good to have
The Lincoln Miracle puts the Republican convention into context of the national battle against slavery. The context doesn’t start, or stop, at the convention
I especially enjoyed that Prague is also a character in this graphic novel, and sometimes steals the focus from Einstein, Kafka, and the skeleton
