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April 1865: The Month That Saved America (P.S.)
Jay Winik
Harper Perennial, 2006
What is usually the end of the story is the story...
I'm the kind of person who likes the "story behind the story," and so, I truly enjoyed Jay Winik's April 1865: The Month That Saved America. Winik has produced a well-written, meticulously researched scholarly tome about this critical month in our nation's history.
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Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy
Shane O'Sullivan
Union Square Press, 2008
Cleans the CIA-LAPD Stables; No Small Task!
I strongly recommend that readers read O'Sullivans new book, Who Killed Bobby. There is a lot of new information, not only on the new Times/ Discovery channel balistics test that argues 13 shots--Sirhan's gun had eight-- but also invaluable updated interviews with ...
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Dr. Mary's Monkey: How the Unsolved Murder of a Doctor, a Secret Laboratory in New Orleans and Cancer-Causing ...
Edward T. Haslam
Trine Day, 2007
Monkey research still going on...
I did not put this book down until I finished it. I have lived in the New Orleans area for more than 35 years. I am not the least surprised by anything put forth in this book. I believe the polio story...and am one of the people who got the vacine. I just found out ...
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Assassination Vacation
Sarah Vowell
Simon & Schuster, 2006
America needs Sarah Vowell
America needs more Sarah Vowell. Perhaps more importantly, I need more Sarah Vowell. I know this review won't exactly make me one of Amazon's Top Reviewers. Nevertheless, I'm just saying. Sarah Vowell, here's five stars -- for you.
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Stone Cold
David Baldacci
Grand Central Publishing, 2007
A Rip-roaring Thriller
Fete of Death "Stone Cold" is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller starring the shadowy CIA hit man Oliver Stone, not to be confused with the eponymous conspiracy-minded movie director of "JFK." Men involved in Stone's unsavory and violent past are being picked off by a ...
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Julius Caesar (The New Folger Library Shakespeare)
William Shakespeare
Washington Square Press, 2004
The Power Of Language
Julius Caesar is murdered very shortly into this play so while he bears the title the play is about the conspirators and the supporters of caesar and the struggle for power that comes after his asassination. The power of language to persude the masses and the fickle ...
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Don't Start the Revolution Without Me!
Jesse Ventura
Skyhorse Publishing, 2008
Book review
I like Jesse, and found the book to be interesting. Book was delivered in a timely manner, was very pleased. Thank You
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Behold a Pale Horse
William Cooper, Milton William Cooper
Light Technology Publications, 1991
Bill Cooper, Rest In Peace Brother
I first bought this book without having any idea of what it was about, but I just intuitively knew (after flipping through it's chapters) that there was at least SOME truth to be found in it. I knew that this was new territory for me, and was excited to be finally ...
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JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters
James W. Douglass
Orbis Books, 2008
Highly Recommended
Jim Douglass presents a credible, coherent, and convincing narrative for the events surrounding JFK's assassination. He uses resources from U.S. and Soviet archives, first hand accounts of people now willing to talk, dogged researchers over the years challenging the ...
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Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer (P.S.)
James L. Swanson
Harper Perennial, 2007
Manhunt
I bought this book for two reasons, 1) my name is also James L. Swanson, and 2) I have always been an interested reader of Lincoln history. The book is a stinmulating chronology of the assisnation of Lincoln with more factual quotes and and detail than I have read in ...
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The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
David Kaiser
Belknap Press, 2008
Thorough, best is at the end
Full disclosure: I haven't read that many books on the subject but have always tended to believe it was a setup of some kind involving the mob and someone else. Principal reasons being Ruby's killing Oswald, and the murders of prime Mob suspects in 1975 during the ...
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Rain Fall (John Rain Thrillers)
Barry Eisler
Signet, 2003
Rain delivers
This book really delivered the action and thrills.
A whim purchase that sat on my shelf for quite some time, this was a surprisingly good novel. Content-rich and full of suspense, the first Rain novel exceeded the expectations I had based on the dust jacket.
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Sleeping with Strangers
Eric Jerome Dickey
Dutton Adult, 2007
Gideon is the MAN!!
I truly loved this series! I really didn't have much interest in this glaring deviation from EJD's usual subject matter when it first came out - but boy, was I wrong!! I did the audiobook for this one and the narrator's excellent and multi-faceted presentation of the ...
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The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
Robert Alexander
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004
Couldn't put it down
Coincidentally, the day I started this book there was a news announcement that the graves of the missing Romanov children had possibly been discovered. I should have known that it was a good omen! I had been looking for a novel about the Romanovs for some time and this ...
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Blood, Money & Power: How L.B.J. Killed J.F.K.
Barr McClellan
Hannover House, 2003
Interesting and compelling analysis...
The author opens with a detailed biography of Lyndon Johnson that removes the veneer of 'presidentiality' from Johnson and shows him as a greedy, fearful, mean man with an all-consuming need for power. McClellan then builds his case against Johnson by describing ...
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