BOOKS

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. (See our link policy) I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but […]

FROM AMERICAN STORY: I found the John Adams book to be so motivating that I began to read biographies of our Presidents to fill out the timeline from Adams until today, with no clearly defined road map but with a sudden, renewed interest. As I read my way haphazardly through American (and occasionally world) history, […]

In AMERICAN STORY I credit David McCullough’s book John Adams with triggering my exploration into history (and about American history, this was true), but some years before that I picked up William Manchester’s book on Winston Churchill’s life: “The Last Lion.” By the time I finished reading the introduction (quoted below) I was hooked and […]

Stanley, in my opinion, wrote a book bigger than his subject. It is a book — The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones  (Apple/Amazon/B&N) — that I have read many times and never does it fail to impress.  It is a monumental effort but not– and this irritates some–simple.  So be it. Great requires a […]

In AMERICAN STORY I credit David McCullough’s book John Adams with triggering my exploration into history (and about American history, this was true), but some years before that I picked up William Manchester’s book on Winston Churchill’s life: “The Last Lion.” By the time I finished reading the introduction (quoted below) I was hooked and […]

I ran across Jonathan Taplin’s iBook OUTLAW BLUES as I was completing AMERICAN STORY. I found it immediately engaging because — in a way similar to AMERICAN STORY — it intermixed social history with the effects of the arts, although URBAN OUTLAWS often went to different areas with different focus, in part because of Jonathan’s […]

This video is a link from You Tube. All copyrights remain with the original copyright holders. In AMERICAN STORY a great deal of appreciation and attention is paid the work of Neil Postman’s book Amusing Ourselves to Death and in it he writes about two visions of the future: George Orwell’s 1984 and Aldous Huxley’s […]

As I write in some length in AMERICAN STORY, Neil Postman’s book AMUSING OURSELVES TO DEATH affected me profoundly and still does. That the book has been translated into eight languages and sold over two hundred thousand copies (Wikipedia) takes it out of the realm of the obscure but, for me, its importance (It’s embedded […]

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“In the cold, nearly colorless light of a New England winter, two men on horseback traveled the coast road below Boston, heading north. A foot or more of snow covered the landscape, the remnants of a Christmas storm that had blanketed Massachusetts from one end of the province to the other. Beneath the snow, after […]