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The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst

19 reviews
Nicholas Tomalin, Ron Hall

International Marine Publishing, 1995

A powerful, moving must-read
This is a must-read classic for any armchair sailor or adventurer. It tells the story of one of nine entrants in the first around-the-world sailing race, Donald Crowhurst, who perpetuated one of the great hoaxes of the 20th century before mysteriouly disappearing. Jonathan Raban, Fellow of the Royal Social of Literature (among his many accolades)writes in the introduction, "I've been reading ...

Apollo : An Eyewitness Account By Astronaut/Explorer Artist/Moonwalker

19 reviews
Alan Bean, Andrew Chaikin

The Greenwich Workshop Press, 1998

Reviewing Hero's
If you have a strong interest in Space travel, and always wanted to talk to the Astronauts that went to the moon to ask them how it felt or what they were thinking as they walked on a planet other then earth, this is the book that will bring you to a time that has never been repeated. A time when man walked on the moon. Mr. Bean's use of his fantastic artwork to describe a part of his life ...

Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1932 (Writings of Leon Trotsky)

17 reviews
Leon Trotsky

Pathfinder Press (NY), 1973

DEFEATED, BUT UNBOWED
If you are interested in the history of the International Left in the first half of the 20th century or are a militant trying to understand some of the past lessons of our history concerning the communist response to various social and labor questions this book is for you. I have reviewed elsewhere Trotsky's writings published under the title The Left Opposition, 1923-1929 (in three volumes) ...

Love Always, Patsy: Patsy Cline's Letters to a Friend

12 reviews
Cindy Hazen, Mike Freeman

Berkley Hardcover, 1999

A New Patsy Fan!
Thank you Mike and Cindy for sharing the personal letters of Patsy Cline with all of us. What better way to get to know someone, then to peek into their letters written to someone very special. Not only are the words that she writes very intimate and from the heart, but the paper they are witten on and the way they are written(phrasing and penmanship) give you insight into Patsy's feelings and ...

Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill Alone 1932-1940

40 reviews
William Manchester

Blackstone Audiobooks, 1990

Churchill's true finest hour; this book will give you a better appreciation of Winston's greatness, courage, and foresight
For some inexplicable reason, the second (and unfortunately final) volume of William Manchester's biography sat on my shelf unread for some time. I think because the book spans the years 1932 to 1940 -- and does not cover most of World War II -- I skipped the book over, figuring that Winston's best and most important years were his war years. After reading "Alone", I realized immediately how ...

The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932-1972

37 reviews
William Manchester

Bantam, 1984

US History as Historical Epic in Magisterial Manchester Work
William Manchester bookends this sprawling, epic US history with two protests in the heart of Washington. He opens in 1930 at the rise of the Great Depression, with veterans across from the White House coldly shunned by President Herbert Hoover when asking for advance relief from the Great Depression, then brutally attacked by troops and national guardsmen led by Douglas MacArthur. He concludes ...

My Life in Advertising and Scientific Advertising (Advertising Age Classics Library)

18 reviews
Claude Hopkins

McGraw-Hill, 1966

It's not just about the money
Hopkins's career began at the dawn of advertising and copywriting. As his career progressed so did advertising and he gives us a behind the scenes look at many advertising campaigns from the late 1800's-1920's. Hopkins almost single-handedly helped take copywriting out of its "swaddling clothes." Of equal interest is his personal history. He was raised in a strict religious home and ...

An Uncommon Friendship: From Opposite Sides of the Holocaust

22 reviews
Bernat Rosner, Frederic C. Tubach

University of California Press, 2001

A vey moving historical book that everyone should read
I was very impressed with this book; for such a difficult subject it was beautifully written. I have been to the Holocaust Museum in Israel, and though the documentation there is quite graphic and disturbing, the voice of the child in Bernie, and the voice of the child on the other side in Fritz, completes a picture that is enlightening, but reveals a picture that no one wants to believe. It ...

Last Lion : Winston Spencer Churchill Vol 1 Part II: Visions of Glory 1874-1932

39 reviews
William Manchester

Blackstone Audiobooks, 1990

As Good as Biography Gets
This fully lives up to its reputation as perhaps the best biography ever written. Manchester does a peerless, masterful job filling in the background colors and giving a complete picture of Churchill from a young man into his early fifties. As Manchester emphasizes, this background was essentially the decline and fall of the British Empire and the aristocracy who ran it. Manchester's main point, ...

The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932-1940

34 reviews
William Manchester

Little, Brown and Company, 1988

Churchill
Finest biography on Churchill ever written. A pity Manchester died before completing the third book of the trilogy.

A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years, 1917-1932

10 reviews
John Richardson

Knopf, 2007

Valuable Insights into Picasso's Sources and Methods
If you think you know Picasso's work, this book will convince you otherwise. John Richardson has done a tremendous service by sorting out when Picasso produced his greatest works between 1917 and 1932, what sources he "borrowed" from, what he was trying to accomplish, and how all of these works affected his career. This book was quite a revelation to me. Simply by seeing a lot of his work (as ...

Lone Voyager: The Extraordinary Adventures Of Howard Blackburn Hero Fisherman Of Gloucester

8 reviews
Joseph E Garland

Touchstone, 2000

Wonderful book about life at the turn of the century (1900)
Howard Blackburn was one cool dude! I mean the guy gets caught away from the mother ship and rows for 5 days to live but it costs him all his fingers and that's just the first two chapters! You've got him going off to the Yukon on a gold rush jaunt, a couple of single handed trips across the Atlantic. A circumnavigation of the Eastern US via the Great Lakes and the Misissippi River and around ...

Pier Angeli: A Fragile Life

7 reviews
Jane Allen

McFarland & Company, 2002

A great biography of a sad life
Information on Pier Angeli is hard to find; I'm so glad I found this book! Pier's story is wonderfully told - I simply could not put this book down. I highly recommend it!

Silent Screams of a Survivor

7 reviews
Mitch Garwolinski, Bob Hoffman

Acorn Publishing, 2004

Best Holocaust Book I Have Read
If this book were a question from Jeopardy, the answer would be "numerous." The question would be, "How many times did Mitch Garwolinski escape death from the Nazi war machine during World War II?" Silent Screams of a Survivor, A Polish Boy's Holocaust, tells this gripping story of a boy (age seven in 1939) who was separated from his family, beaten, molested, and imprisoned in various labor and ...

MAGNIFICENT FAILURE

8 reviews
Craig Ryan

Smithsonian, 2003

Excellent !!
As a collector of books written by or about former astronauts as well as balloonist I can honestly say that this is one of the finest written accounts I have read. This book truly captures both the technical side of this endeavor and the man behind the dream. As a 3rd grade student of St. Bernard's Grade School in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1965 I distinctly recall being on the school playground ...

The Voice That Remembers: A Tibetan Woman's Inspiring Story of Survival

9 reviews
Ama Adhe, Joy Blakeslee

Wisdom Publications, 1999

The Voice That Remembers will never be forgotten
This is a very powerful and moving account of one woman's life of incredible hardship and suffering. Ama-la lost her family, her friends, and her country... but she kept her identity, her dignity, or her compassion. What makes this story so inspiring is that Ama-la's sincere good-heartedness triumphs, against appalling odds, over the systemic evil that the People's Republic of China ...

A Literate Passion: Letters of Anais Nin and Henry Miller, 1932-1953

9 reviews
Anais Nin, Henry Miller, ...

Harcourt, 1987

The Language of Sexual Liberation
Whatever you may think of her writing, Anaïs Nin was definitely a femme fatale. Henry Miller was, he claimed, the "happiest man alive." Together, Nin and Miller created a literary language for sexual fulfillment; she in a diary whose original form still remains unpublished, he in novels banned in both the United States and England until court cases in the early 1960s permitted their publication ...

Loitering With Intent: The Child

9 reviews
Peter O'Toole

Hyperion Books, 1993

The classic and the modern.
A charming book; somehow surprising, as the critics say too:'a new face of O'TOOLE': indeed, the tone of the story is a very warm one, with romantic overtones in the first part, without any trace of cynism or sophistication; therfore, it is contrary to his style maybe, or, a better word is to his type of characters he plays as an actor-usually being in a delicate psychological or emotional ...

The Mad Trapper of Rat River: A True Story of Canada's Biggest Manhunt

8 reviews
Dick North

The Lyons Press, 2003

Canada, Please Let Dick North finish his quest
Awesome read, very well written with plenty of facts to back up Mr. North's work. You appreciate his passion for a definitive answer to who A.Johnson truely was. It is sad that the Canadian's refused to solve the mystery. Nevertheless, I am one of the believer's John Johnson was the Mad Trapper.

John Steinbeck : Novels and Stories, 1932-1937 : The Pastures of Heaven / To a God Unknown / Tortilla Flat / ...

10 reviews
John Steinbeck

Library of America, 1994

Some pretty amazing Steinbeck magic
This volume contains some of the earlier works of John Steinbeck. Steinbeck was a master of the English language and had the talent of using the least amount of words to convey the greatest amount of emotions. His stories are moving without being cheap. He is compassionate and had keen insight into his characters and the world at large. Reviewing each story that appears in this volume is beyond ...

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