It was announced this week that Ron Chernow’s most excellent biography of George Washington, aptly named “Washington: A Life” (book review) won the Pulitzer Prize. I think the prize is well deserved, Mr. Chernow has the ability to bring historical figures to life and his books read like novels. Here are a few interesting facts I learned from “Washington: A Life” and from our family trip to Washington’s estate in Mt. Vernon, ...
Pictures of real American circus scenes from the first half of the century peppered throughout the book which really hit home and helped visualize the narrative...
Author Lelia Levinson travels all over the world and the US in order to get firsthand accounts from other surviving liberators of Nazi camps....
Whether you are rich or poor, eduÂcated or not and no matÂter to which politÂiÂcal party you donated to, you are always welÂcome at your local library...
A Fierce Radiance makes penicillin interesting. Spies, sex, big money, scrupulous industrialists, incorruptible scientist as well as corruptible ones....
I also noticed that children like to read about someone which is the same sex and same age, actually a year or two older is usually preferable...
All DRM did is give honest consumers a hard time and waste the company’s money by fighting DRM pirates who are always one step ahead (at least)....
The past of Bernie Gunther catches up with in 1954 Cuba while doing work for mobster boss Meyer Lansky. Even though this anti-Nazi PI survived the Nazi regime...
I was very impressed with The Hunchback of Notre Dame and thought the last 200 pages were certainly work trudging through some of it....
The dark, brooding and punishing interactions between the complex characters are a mastery of storytelling. The characters are also part of this complex plot...