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 […]
Those Angry Days
Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America’s Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941 by Lynne Olson In Those Angry Days, Olson returns to the pre-WWII period of her earlier non-fiction book Troublesome Young […]
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe If you read Keefe’s 2017 article in The New Yorker about the slippery Sackler family, then you must read his book about the […]
Double Cross
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre Those wacky MI5 British intelligence offices are at it again in Ben Macintyre’s latest book Double Cross. Like his earlier novel Operation Mincemeat, Macintyre relays […]
Factory Man
Factory Man by Beth Macy Being a Bassett of Bassett furniture fame was a good gig for a lot of years. As long as you could stomach working for one […]
Dopesick
Dopesick by Beth Macy The opioid epidemic is a multi-faceted problem, but in her latest book, Dopesick, Beth Macy explores how-we-got here, starting with the introduction of OxyContin by Purdue […]
Deep Down Dark
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar If you were alive in August […]
Dead Wake
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson 100 years ago this month, while enroute from NYC to Liverpool, the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German submarine […]