Category: NON FICTION

December 26, 2012

Marbles by Ellen Forney *** (of 4)

A graphic, graphic-novel of the author’s descent, ascent, descent, and ascent through bipolar disorder. Her story is told with exceptional clarity, honesty, more than a...

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August 13, 2012

1493 by Charles Mann *** (of 4)

Prior to Columbus’s blundering into the Caribbean, there was negligible interchange of plants, animals, or humans between continents. Shortly thereafter the onset of large-scale globalization...

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June 17, 2012

Churchill by Paul Johnson ** (of 4)

An interesting approach to a biography of the man who saved western civilization from Hitler. Churchill wrote more than 10 million words in his lifetime,...

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May 21, 2012

Hitch 22 by Christopher Hitchens **** (of 4)

A memoir of Hitchen’s 60 years on earth most of it he spent as an irrascible, cantankerous, and largely contrarian thinker, writer, and agitator. As...

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May 15, 2012

Moneyball by Michael Lewis *** (of 4)

The salary gap between rich baseball teams in large cities like New York or Boston and small market teams in places like Kansas City, Minneapolis,...

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May 15, 2012

In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson *** (of 4)

William E. Dodd, an unassuming, dysthymic, history professor at the University of Chicago finds himself America’s ambassador to Berlin in 1933. President Roosevelt is battling...

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March 1, 2012

Haiti: The Aftershocks of History by Laurent Dubois ** (of 4)

This book covers Haiti’s history from the first importation of enslaved Africans to the months immediately following the devastating 2010 earthquake. It is as thorough...

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February 22, 2012

Lost to the West by Lars Bronworth *** (of 5)

OK, I did not know a thing about the Byzantine empire before I read this book and now not only do I have a sense...

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January 27, 2012

Hellhound on his Trail by Hampton Sides *** (of 4)

Hampton Sides gimmick as a writer is to start two or three parallel stories and watch as they converge in a single moment in history. ...

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January 20, 2012

Ghost Wars by Steve Coll **** (of 4)

This book changed the way I viewed the CIA. I used to believe they were ideologically driven bumblers, but after observing the careful exhibition of...

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