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30 Great Biographies To Bury Yourself In
Forbes· 2 days agoBiographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and circumstances around some of history’s most fascinating events. The best biography books...
Doris Kearns Goodwin and husband Dick Goodwin lived, observed, created and chronicled the 1960s
Los Angeles Times· 5 days ago“An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s” isn’t precisely the book that...
Viewpoint bestsellers - The Republic News
The Republic News· 2 days agoTop titles at downtown Columbus’ indepndent book store.
Military Book Review The Sergeant: The Incredible Life of Nicholas Said: Son of an African General,...
Strategy Page· 1 day agoPulitzer-prize-winning journalist Dean Calbreath gives us a fine biography of Mohammed Ali ben Sa'id (1836-1882). Born into wealth and privilege in the ancient African kingdom ...
Book Reviews: Victory City: Salman Rushdie
The Valdosta Daily Times· 4 days agoSalman Rushdie is a writer best known, sadly and arguably, for a fatwa placed on his head rather than for the books he writes. Which is horrible not only...
2 Memoirs by Poets
New York Times· 2 days agoNot long ago at a book party (yes, they still exist), I fell into conversation with a well-known poet (they also still exist) who told me that, at her...
Military Book Review John T. Wilder: Union General, Southern Industrialist
Strategy Page· 1 day agoSteven Cox offers the reader a definitive history of John T. Wilder, who as a Union officer commanded the “Lightning Brigade,” of mounted infantry, and after the war became a prominent businessman ...
Jackie Robinson was a Republican until the GOP became the ‘white man’s party’
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoLike millions of other Blacks during the first half of the 20th Century, legendary baseball player...
Obituaries in Akron, OH | Akron Beacon Journal
Akron Beacon Journal· 5 days agoJohn Cesare Fazio, age 85, passed away peacefully at Akron General Hospital on March 8th comforted by his loving partner, Caryn Zwick, and his long-time...