Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret
Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown If you are a fan of The Crown and enjoy Royal gossip, I recommend Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret, which for lack […]
Manhunt
Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer by James L. Swanson On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth entered the State Box at the Ford Theater in Washington D.C, and […]
Lady in Waiting
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner Anne Glenconner had an idyllic childhood. In her memoir, Lady in Waiting, she describes growing up at Holkham, the 27,000-acre estate of her father, […]
Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann Of all the famous gangsters of the 1920s, the men behind the murders […]
Just Mercy
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson Before the feature film Just Mercy starring Michael B. Jordan, before the HBO documentary True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, before the TED talk […]
Junkyard Planet
Junkyard Planet by Adam Minter Do you know what happens to your old Christmas tree lights? They are shipped in a container to a scrap-metal processor in southern China […]
Indian Summer
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Alex Von Tunzelmann After reading The White Tiger a few months ago, I became interested in Indian history, […]
I Remember Nothing
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron The conversation went something like this: Editor at Alfred A. Knopf: We need a good book for the holidays. What’s Nora got? Junior Editor: […]
How the Word is Passed
How the Word is Passed, by Clint Smith They don’t host weddings at The Whitney Plantation in Wallace, Louisiana. The guides don’t discuss the architecture of the big house, dress […]
The Illusionist
The Illusionist: The True Story of the Man Who Fooled Hitler by Robert Hutton In December of 1940, Colonel Dudley Clarke arrived in Cario as ‘Personal Intelligence Officer (Special Duties)’ […]
Hide & Seek
Hide & Seek, the Irish Priest in the Vatican Who Defied the Nazi Command by Stephen Walker You know I love a good WWII book! Hide & Seek, the Irish […]
Hellhound on his Trail
Hellhound on his Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History by Hampton Sides I stumbled across Hellhound on his Trail by accident. Random House sent me […]
Fordlandia
Fordlandia, The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City by Greg Grandin In 1927, an increasingly eccentric Henry Ford purchased a tract of land about the size of […]
Empresses Of Seventh Avenue
Empresses of Seventh Avenue by Nancy MacDonell American fashion designers are so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine a time when there was no such creature. But prior to […]
Troublesome Young Men
Troublesome Young Men by Lynne Olson In hindsight, Winston Churchill’s election to Prime Minister in May 1940 looks inevitable. In fact, as Lynne Olson brilliantly describes in her book Troublesome […]