Reads

Beverly Gage has leveraged time and document availability to author a work for which any biographer and historian would be proud. G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the making of the American Century is a biography that reveals the complexity and contradictions of the person who led the Federal Bureau on Investigation (FBI) for 48 years. Read More…

A reasonable assumption would be that American’s know everything about the Kennedy family, or at least enough.  Therefore, a biography of Ted Kennedy’s life might be a waste of a reader’s time – given it might be a boring rehash.  The assumption would be wrong. I was hesitant to put any time into Ted Kennedy Read More…

Can a book of non-fiction be a page turner? Can it be written in a style that provides intrigue, romance and betrayal as good as any offered by non-fiction works? Erik Larson’s The Splendid and the Vile is such a book.  It is about the Saga of Winston Churchill, the Churchill Family, and the defiance Read More…