If you see any titles here that you would like me to comment on please make a request and I’ll add it to “Book Notes”.
Books to review:
1. A Few Bloody Noses – Robert Harvey
2. Horse People – Michael Korda
3. Ike (bio) – Michael Korda
4. The Making of the Atom Bomb – Richard Rhodes
5. Tuxedo Park (radar development in U.S.) – Jennet Conant
6. Stalin (bio) – Edvard Radzinsky
7. Grant (bio) – Michael Korda
8. Underworld – Don DeLillo
9. Don Quixote – Miguel Cervantes
10. Moby Dick – Herman Melville
11. Bond of Union (Erie Canal) – Gerard Koeppel
12. Essays and short fiction – John Barth
13. Confederates in the Attic – Tony Horwitz
14. The Englishman’s Boy – Guy Vanderhaeghe
15. Seven Days in the Art World – SarahThornton
16. Secrets of the Model Dorm – Amanda Kerlin
17. I’m Sorry You Feel That Way - Diana Joseph
18. Slavery By Another Name – Douglas Blackmon
19. American Heroes – Edmund Morgan
20. Hog Pilots, Blue Water Grunts – Robert Kaplan
21. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (re-read) – Robert Venturi
22. The Red and the Black – Stendahl
23. My Revolution (Hungarian- 1956) – Michael Korda
24. Bushwhacked Piano (re-read, fifth time) – Thomas McGuane
25. Gallatin Canyon – Stories – Thomas McGuane
26. Sixty Stories – Donald Barthelme
27. Waveland – Frederick Barthelme
28. This Republic of suffering (Civil War) – Drew Gilpin Faust
29. A Team of Rivals (Lincoln and Civil War Cabinet) – Doris Kearns Goodwin
30. Louis Brandeis (bio) – Melvin Urofsky
31. The Coldest Winter (Korean War) – David Halberstam
32. The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
33. For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
34. A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
35. This Side of Paradise – F. Scott Fitzgerald
36. The Beautiful and the Damned – F. Scott Fitzgerald
37. The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
38. The Last Tycoon – F. Scott Fitzgerald
39. Rogue Warrior Novels (7 total)- Richard Marcinko ( like crack )40. Hugo Black (bio) – Gerald Dunne
41. Le Corbusier (bio) – Nicholas Fox-Weber
42. Danube – Claudio Magris (remarkable book – don’t miss)
43. Founding Brothers – Joseph Ellis
44. The Winning Spirit – Joe Montana and Tom Mitchell