by Adam Hochschild, 1998, Audiobook on cassette tapes narrated by Geoffrey Howard released in 2010, Books on Tape, Random House Audio This book is an indictment of the colonization of the Congo by King Leopold of Belgium. It recounts the … Continue reading →
by Buzz Bissinger, 2022, Harper This is possibly the worst book I have recently read. It attempts to portray the marines who played a game of football on Guadalcanal prior to fighting in the battle for Okinawa where many of … Continue reading →
by Alan Moorehead, originally published in 1963, Kindle version, 2010, Skyhorse This book is about an exploration expedition into the interior of Australia in 1860. Much of Australia had never been explored at that time and this was one of … Continue reading →
by David Kertzer, 2022, Audiobook narrated by Arthur Morey, Random House Audio In 2020 the Vatican opened up numerous documents in their archives relating to communications and meeting between the Vatican and the Italian and German governments before and … Continue reading →
by Herbert Hoover, edited by William Nichols, 1964, Random House, New York This book was in a box of books that I inherited from my grandmother back in the 1990’s. I hadn’t read it until recently when I decided to … Continue reading →
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. 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 →