One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, by Charles Fishman, published on June 11, 2019. This is well researched book. When…
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One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon, by Charles Fishman, published on June 11, 2019. This is well researched book. When…
An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination, by Sheera Frenkel, Cecillia Kang has just been published, July 13, 2021. The two New York Times…
Devil in the White City (2003) by Erik Larson, on Chicago’s 1893 Fair (Expo) and serial killer H.H. Holmes. Two story lines: the fair and…
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need, by Bill Gate, published on February 16, 2021. Mr. Gates…
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World, by Robert M. Gates (1943-), published on June 16,…
Operation Typhoon: Hitler’s March on Moscow, October 1941, by David Stahel, published in 2013. It has 88 ratings on Amazon at this writing. This three months long…
Written by Matthew McConaughey and narrated himself, this book was published in Oct 2020. I enjoyed it: both the content and the style. His year…
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson (1959-). At this writing, 18,566 comments are registered on Amazon. Stevenson obtained his law degree from…
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacson (1952-). This book is out only two months…
By Jon Krakauer on Chris McCandless (1968-92), an Emory University graduate who ventured into the wild and died in Stampede Trail, Alaska. He wrote for school’s…