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Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees 52 reviews
Ben Mezrich
William Morrow, 2005
Smart and rich
A great tale compellingly told. Would have been nice to have had some of the math exposed in an appendix for those who care, but a grand story
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Troublesome Young Men: The Rebels Who Brought Churchill to Power and Helped Save England 34 reviews
Lynne Olson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008
inspiring
This is the story of the men who brought down Chamberlain and installed Churchill as prime minister--an outcome that seemed unlikely at best when World War II began. Lynne Olson's account of these men and their times reads like a finely-crafted and eminently readable novel. Here are the coming out balls, the wire-tapping, the hostile press, the exclusive clubs, the public school mentality--the ...
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The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought ...18 reviews
Colin Woodard
Harvest Books, 2008
What you didn't know about pirates
You might think a person interested in pirates would get into the historical records to learn more about those rough wanderers. Colin Woodard came at it from the other direction: he has a fascination with history and "got into" pirates as a vehicle to bring U.S. colonial history to life. "The Republic of Pirates" is the fascinating product of his research.
Woodard focuses on what he calls "the ...
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Bust: How I Gambled and Lost a Fortune, Brought Down a Bank--and Lived to Pay for It12 reviews
Adam B. Resnick
William Morrow, 2007
Good Reading - Interesting True Story
This book is a very well-written book that provides good entertaining reading while attempting to at the same time to reach out to people and family members in the need of help (to show them how ugly things can get when gambling takes over your life).
Hey "EyeInTheSky"? Do you have a life? Or do you just visit these postings daily and try to ridicule them out of angst, bitterness, and ...
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to America 4 reviews
Sylviane A. Diouf
Oxford University Press, USA, 2007
Wonderfully researched personal stories
Dreams of Africa in Alabama is a beautifully written and meticulous book. It's evident that Ms. Diouf spent a considerable amount of time and detail with her research. The author describes the Alabama slave trade and the events that lead to the maiden voyage of the modified schooner, Clotilda. She devotes two chapters to the lives of the "shipmates" - one prior to their capture and the other ...
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The Light Within: The Extraordinary Friendship of a Doctor and Patient Brought Together by Cancer7 reviews
Lois M. Ramondetta, Deborah Sills
William Morrow, 2008
Moving and Enlightening
It seems odd to read a memoir by someone you know, describing events to which you were something of a witness, but I found my friend Lois Ramondetta's newly published book, The Light Within, to be a great read and a moving account of her friendship with co-author Deborah Rose Sills that began when Sills was a patient at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and ended with Sills' death from ...
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The United States of Appalachia: How Southern Mountaineers Brought Independence, Culture, and Enlightenment ...15 reviews
Jeff Biggers
Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007
Great Read
I saw this author at the Virginia Book Festival. He is a terrific speaker. I sat spellbound for all of his presentation--or reading. The book, I was afraid, might let me down, but it didn't. It is as inspiring as Biggers' speaking style. In it, the author peels off one incredible story after another--most of which I had never heard before--from the time of the Cherokee and their Renaissance ...
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The Cat Who Brought Down The House61 reviews
Lilian Jackson Braun
Jove, 2003
Love it
Even though I'm only 11, people, CHILL. I am curently feasting on it, but I love it. This is practically the only good cat fiction out there. All you cat lovers, BUY IT NOW. And one last thing: MEOW!!!
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The Buffalo Creek Disaster: How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal-mining history brought ... 20 reviews
Gerald M. Stern
Vintage, 1977
Engrossing Real-Life Legal Drama
Even though the subtitle gives away the ending, you won't be able to put this one down as the author leads you to one clue after the other that bring down a corrupt company and give new life to a community ripped to shreds.
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Nemesis: The True Story of Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys34 reviews
Peter Evans
Harper Paperbacks, 2005
Whoa!
What a fascinating, very well written book! It seemed every page had a juicy morsel or two and really opened my eyes into what was really going on during the last months of John Kennedy's life and why Jackie married Aristotle Onassis. As a teenager, I was shocked she'd married someone who obviously wasn't a friend of the United States. But Peter Evans portrays Onassis as someone so fascinating, ...
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My Librarian Is a Camel: How Books Are Brought to Children Around the World3 reviews
Margriet Ruurs
Boyds Mills Press, 2005
Better than Santa Claus !!
What could be a more precious gift than learning to read? It's time for Santa to take second place! Do children today really lack interest in our 'wider world'? Writers for newspapers & magazines frequently write about *GEOGRAPHICALLY-CHALLENGED* young people. Author Margriet Ruurs' book tells children of the many ways in which libraries are brought to the doorsteps of readers in thirteen ...
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina2 reviews
Uki Goni
Granta UK, 2003
The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
A very interesting book. A subject by which I have always been fascinated.
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Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought it Back to Life3 reviews
Molly Cone
Sierra Club Books for Children, 2001
A story well told that young and old alike can relate too.
I first researched this project after reading newspaper accounts and was glad to see this story come into book form. It well illustrates the efforts of these determined students and even made the NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books for Children list in 1992. It's a good example of a community service project for students and and teachers.
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Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption Into the Catholic Church105 reviews
Michael S. Rose
Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2002
Buy a copy for your Bishop!
Excellent, true, and scary. Michael S. Rose, now an editor with the brilliant New Oxford Review, conducted over 100 interviews with former candidates for holy orders in magnet dioceses the formerly *exported* priests to other dioceses, such were the surplus of vocations.
So what happened? Yep, the "Spirit of `68"ers got control and New-Age-Sewaged the process of vocations to death. Never mind ...
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Leviathan on the Right: How Big-Government Conservativism Brought Down the Republican Revolution5 reviews
Michael D. Tanner
Cato Institute, 2007
The looming battle for the soul of the Republican Party
"Leviathan on The Right" is the opening salvo in the internecine battle within the Republican Party. For believers of limited government who have wondered where the GOP went wrong, Michael D. Tanner chronicles how the vision of the likes of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan have been usurped by segments of the GOP have insisted on expanding government. Why? Tanner outlines the various strains ...
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Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice9 reviews
Ronald J. Olive
US Naval Institute Press, 2006
Trapping the Spy
"Luck had nothing to do with it". How many times have we heard that statement? In the case of Jonathan Pollard,luck had EVERYTHING to do with it. Having spent 12 years in Army counterintelligence, and almost 30 years in the security field myself, I was amazed at how often luck favored him. Eventually, Pollard's luck ran out. The story of his downfall, as told by the man who was there, is a ...
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How Disruption Brought Order: The Story of a Winning Strategy in the World of Advertising1 review
Jean-Marie Dru
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Enviable
The content is great and the book flows nicely.
Better yet, the Disruption technique, the stories and the examples are lively and impressive.
Best of all... it really works.
I recently had the pleasure of visiting TBWA in São Paulo - a client had hired me to scout for an Agency. Luis Grottera, Cibar Ruiz and Andrea Lang gave a brilliant agency presentation and showed me how Disruption works. ...
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The Condor Years: How Pinochet and His Allies Brought Terrorism to Three Continents12 reviews
John Dinges
New Press, 2005
Well detailed and researched book
The first thing we have to make clear in these types of books is who the author is and the author of this book is John Dinges. Dinges is a serious journalist who worked as the editorial director for National Public Radio for over ten years (1985 to 1996). He has worked as a foreign correspondent for Time, ABC, and most notably the Washington Post. And he is currently a Professor at the Columbia ...
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Madame Blavatsky's Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to Ameri ca 35 reviews
Peter Washington
Schocken, 1996
Laughs and last laughs
Except for the eyes, Helena Blavatsky "looked overall like a badly wrapped and glittering parcel."
And with that, Peter Washington is off to the races. In a way, there is no reason for people who do not believe in spooks to care about Madame Blavatsky and her progeny, apart from the practical fact that she introduced cremation into America, which up until the 1870s had been an exclusively ...
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Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America17 reviews
E. Franklin Frazier
Free Press, 1997
Sheila
I agree with most of what Mr. Franklin wrote in his book. Black people had a different kind of criteria for those that they called upper/ middle class. And in most cases it is still the same today. Sure there were a few truly upper/middle class people in our race when this book was written. But the bundle that made up the Black upper/middle class were ordinary everyday people. Postmen, pullmen ...
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