Review of the masterful three-volume biography of Winston Churchill by the historian and renowned biographer William Manchester:  The...

Review of Belfast (the movie). I don’t review many movies but I have been wanting to see this for more than a year. After spending time...

Review of All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doer (2014). This book was the winner of the Pulizter Prize and is set during WWII...

Review of The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn. I recently read and loved Kate Quinn’s book The Rose Code about 3 women code breakers of WWII,...

Review of Living in a Poem by Tom Norman. I loved the slim volume of poems by Tom Norman. The poems varied from stories about his own...

Review of Caste: the Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. I had read Isabel Wilkerson’s first book The Great Migration last...

Review of The Warmth of Other Suns. My list of books to be read is hopelessly long and getting longer. Isabel Wilkerson’s masterpiece...

The Rose Code. This historical fiction by Kate Quinn takes you into the code breaking activities of Bletchley Park. The book is...

Review of The Right: The Hundred Year War for American Conservatism by Matthew Continetti (2022). Continette is a Fellow at the American...

Review of American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins. This wonderful, page-turner of a novel, meticulously researched by Jeanine Cummins, takes...

Review of Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff. Congressman Adam Schiff was a federal...

Review of Collected Essays of James Baldwin edited by Toni Morrison. When I was an undergraduate at Marshall University I read James...

I finished watching the almost 8 hours of the Get Back Documentary on Disney. This consists of video and sound recordings of the Beatles...

Book Review of There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21rst Century by Fiona Hill. This is one of the best books I...

Book Review of The Forgotten 500 by Gregory A. Freeman (2007). This is the full account, using recently declassified information, of the...

I read Laila Lalami’s Pulitzer Prize finalist book The Moor’s Account several years ago and loved it. This book, Secret Son, provides the...

I finally read Karen Armstrong’s 1993 best seller A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The book...

Review of The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcom X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation Anna Malaika Tubbs...

Selected and edited by Tobias Wolff, The Hemingway Stories is a collection of some of the best of Hemingway’s short stories that are...

This is the story of a well-educated, upper middle class family that struggles through their son’s addiction. It is one of the most...