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THE GREATEST SENTENCE EVER WRITTEN
Walter Isaacson is not known for single sentences or even paragraphs for that matter. He is also not known for a book of only sixty=seven pages, including the complete Declaration of Independence. The books title, The Greatest Sentence Ever Written, is an important personal insight into the meaning and application of the declaration’s historic words. We hold these truths to be self-evident that…
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THIS VAST ENTERPRISE/LEWIS AND CLARK REVISITED/ CRAIG FEHRMAN
It is difficult task to author a living history of events that took place in 1804. It is obvious that there is no-one who was present to interview. That is the challenge faced by author and historian Craig Fehrman in his new book THIS VAST ENTERPRISE, A New History of Lewis and Clark. Thus the book which attempts to fill in the blanks of past research on this enterprise uses much oral history,…
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BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON/ Dan Chiasson
If any young Progressive or a candidate of any stripe desires to read the bible on how to overcome impossible odds and get elected to public office from local Mayor to the United States Senate, Dan Chiasson’s BERNIE FOR BURLINGTON THE RISE OF THE PEOPLE’S POLITICIAN is the quintessential manuel. Only Vermont native author Dan Chiasson, a master storyteller, could weave together the elements of…
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250TH ANNIVERSARY/ IMPORTANT GOOD READS
Page through gordonsgoodreads.com and find numerous titles relevant to the founding of America including books on the Revolutionary War, the founding fathers and the Constitutional Conventions. There are three titles among many others that I have found most enlightening. Two of these titles highlight the contributions of individuals whose participation have in some quarters been more obscure.…
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THE GREAT CONTRADICTION/JOSEPH ELLIS
The sub title of Joseph J. Ellis‘ latest book is most descriptive of this work of non-fiction: THE TRAGIC SIDE of the AMERICAN FOUNDING. During this current period when America Celebrates the 250th Anniversary of independence historian Ellis uncovers the deeply flawed creation on the US Constitution and the inability of the founding fathers to deal with the new nations greatest issues, slavery…
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THE INDIFFERENT STARS ABOVE/DONNER PARTY
Manifest Destiny. A new life in the great unknown expanse of the American West. Hearts and minds full of anticipation as the Donner Party left Saint Louis, Missouri in 1846. All ages, senior citizens to newborns, on board covered wagons filled with life’s possessions, pulled by teams of oxen. After a perilous journey the promised land beckoned. Daniel James Brown tells the story of the Donner…
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THE SECRET OF SECRETS/DAN BROWN
This is the latest from the author of The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown’s Robert Langdon ( Brown fans have have met him before) once again is on the hunt, this time in Prague to track down a diabolical scheme to transform human minds into weapons of war. The Nature of human consciousness is explored in a ground breaking manuscript by noetic scientist Katherine Solomon. Both the manuscript and…
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FREEDOM SHIP/MARCUS REDIKER
Much has been written about the Underground Railroad, the incredible network that led many in bondage in the south to freedom in the northern free states. FREEDON SHIP by Marcus Rediker tells of a different story of a route to freedom. FREEDOM SHIP reveals how crew members, dock workers and even some merchant ship operators collaborated to board and hide salves on merchant ships plying the US…
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THE IDEA OF AMERICA/DARREN WALKER
I have not read a more incisive overview of inequality in all of its forms than in Darren Walker’s THE IDEA OF AMERICA. The book is a series of speeches and essays written and delivered by Walker during his tenure as president of the Ford Foundation. It is the embodiment of his work in transforming the foundation’s mission from grant making to addressing the issues of inequality and social…
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THE BOYS IN THE LIGHT/NINA WILLNER
Nina Willner writes of her father Eddie Willner in this wonderfully crafted and researched narrative of non-fiction set in the height of WWII and the Holocaust. She merges the stories of two groups of young men one from across America the other including her father rounded up by Hitler’s SS and sent to forced labor concentration camps. Somehow fate brought them together as US Army Armored…
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JOHN HANCOCK/WILLARD RANDALL
If you thought you knew John Hancock you are in for a great awakening! Willard Sterne Randall’s John Hancock is most timely during this 250th year of the American Revolution. Hancock is so much more than his signature of great renown. Randall places Hancock’s importance to the American quest for democracy , the Revolution and the Continental Congresses along side Dr. Joseph Warren, Samuel Adams,…
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CARELESS PEOPLE/SARAH WYNN WILLIAMS
Followers of Gordon’s Good Reads know that I am not a big fan of tell all memoirs, political or otherwise. However, if you are not a fan of Mark Zuckerberg, Sara Wynn -Williams Careless People will likely confirm your feelings about the man and his company. Here is one of the most revealing takeaways from William’s front row seat as Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook. Facebook…
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THE FATE OF THE DAY/ATKINSON
So much more to understand! That is my takeaway from Rick Atkinson’s THE FATE OF THE DAY. This is volume two of his THE REVOLUTION TRILOGY, the first being THE BRITISH ARE COMING. ( see gordons goodreads). Volume two traces the Revolutionary War action from Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, hardly a triumphant period for the Patriots and the Continental Army. With the exception of the astounding…
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LEXINGTON AND CONCORD...250TH READING PREPARATION!
American independence and our nations history are of premium interest across all media. I would like to share with you three recommendations for enlightened reading of the events leading to the War of Independence and proceedings of the first and second Constitutional Conventions which lead to the Declaration of Independence of July 4th, 1776. Nathaniel Philbrick’s Bunker Hill is a critical and…
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THE FROZEN RIVER/LAWHON
Ariel Lawhon’s Novel The FROZEN RIVER continues to ride numerous Best Seller Lists. Take her advice and do not read the Author’s Notes before completing the manuscript. There is a backdrop to the story. FROZEN RIVER is a page turner indeed. The story is set during the mid 1700s along the Kennebec River in Maine when that state was still part of Massachusetts. Meet Martha Ballard a midwife who…
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THE DEMON OF UNREST/ERIK LARSON/CODE DUELLO!
An enjoyable, readable academic approach to the lead up of the firing on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina Harbor and the beginning of the Civil War. THE DEMON OF UNREST by Erik Larson begins with Lincoln’s election and is a study of the pro-war extremists in the South, their hubris and misguided efforts to preserve slavery and the Cotton Kingdom. Cotton was the radicals scepter. A simple…
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James/Percival Everett/POWERFUL
It is no surprise that Percival Everett’s James is leading multiple Best Seller Lists. A ride on a raft on the muddy Mississippi with Jim and Huck misses absolutely nothing of the strife and life of slaves and their society of oppressors in the American South. The dialogue is real: Way I sees it is dis. If’n ya gotta hab a rule to tell ya wha’s good, if’n ya gots to hab good splaIned to ya, den…
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