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TStocksl reviewed Dan Rooney: My 75 Years With the Pitt....
April 24
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Dan Rooney is the same age as the Pittsburgh Steelers his father Art started as one of the founding franchises of the NFL, which outgrew its birthplace in a Canton, OH car dealer into a multi billion … more
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We love to make (and read) lists of best things, but the worsts of things--whether books, movies, or cars--are also endlessly fascinating. who thought these were good ideas, how did they get money … more
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TStocksl reviewed Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend.
April 15
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Bill Russell (most recently seen as one of quartet of retired NBA Hall of Famers in the hilarious ATT commercials during the 2013 NCAA March Madness coverage) is one of the all time great NBA players … more
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TStocksl reviewed In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror....
April 10
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Larson turns his story telling skill to an amazing slice of history from a time most Americans, Germans, and citizens of the world would like to forget. In 1933, as America was still deep in Depression … more
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TStocksl reviewed Eiffel's Tower: And the World's Fair ....
April 05
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Jonnes sums up her history of the Eiffel Tower: "no other man-made artifact has ever rivaled the tower's potent mixture of spare elegance, amazing enormity and complexity when experienced firsthand.". … more
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When I opened this book to begin to read it this weekend my adult daughter said "Dad you know that was an old freshman-level textbook of mine that we had put out for the yard sale last year?" … more
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TStocksl reviewed Moral Dilemmas: Biblical Perspectives....
March 11
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When I opened this book to begin to read it this weekend my adult daughter said "Dad you know that was an old freshman-level textbook of mine that we had put out for the yard sale last year?" … more
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TStocksl reviewed ARGO: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulle....
March 10
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Tony Mendez tells the story that won the Oscar in this slim volume that became the basis for the movie Argo. Each is a good companion to the other. While the movie adds some Hollywood touches … more
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TStocksl reviewed Willie's Time: Baseball's Golden Age ....
March 07
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I was a boy turning toward teenhood and puberty, and deeply committed to the Pittsburgh Pirates when Willie Mays retired, and I vaguely remember him as too old, feeble, bordering pathetic in his absurd … more
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TStocksl reviewed A Brief History of Ireland (Brief His....
March 03
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In response to my reading of Leon Uris's Trinity, a historical fiction of Ireland's struggle for independence and nationhood, I wanted to learn more about the history without the fiction. … more
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Chesterton, in this extended book-length essay telling the story of history with credit to H. G. Wells for his Outline of History, proves within and beyond reason that God is not dead, He is not merely … more
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Sayers turns in a tightly twisted plot involving an artist's murder in a coastal Scottish village that is home to a close colony of artists--at least six of whom have a motive for killing the unlikeable … more
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TStocksl reviewed Never Again: Securing America and Res....
February 16
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John Ashcroft was Attorney General during the dark days of September 11 and its aftermath, and he takes his autobiography title from the charge given him by President Bush to protect America from a repeat … more
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TStocksl reviewed Just Ride: A Radically Practical Guid....
February 14
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I have never been a fan of bike racing--it is a dirty sport, everybody juices, and it holds no interest--so until I read Just ride I didn't realize how much the race game influenced my street ride. … more
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TStocksl reviewed Mickey Cohen: The Life and Crimes of ....
February 12
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Amongst the fun facts that enliven this lightweight tabloid-level biography of gangster Cohen I learned that Warren Zevon's father was a lower-level associate of Cohen. Perhaps Warren wrote … more
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER Abraham Lincoln, what can be said about this man that hasn't already been … more
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TStocksl reviewed Summerall: On and Off the Air.
February 08
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Pat Summer all was known for years to millions of NFL fans as the calm and quiet voice sitting beside the boisterous John Madden. He was considered the consummate professional as a broadcaster and … more
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TStocksl reviewed Busman's Honeymoon: A Lord Peter Wims....
February 07
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My second Sayers Peter Wimsey tale was a delight because of the attribute I called out in the title of my review. It is a murder mystery so we know there is a murder involved but for the first 100 … more
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Taking on the sweep of the Irish struggle for independence over a three-century span would be a daunting historical task, but attempting to do it as historical fiction is beyond the scope of all but the … more
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Gabina49 reviewed ARGO: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulle....
February 03
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Title: ARGO: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled off the Most Audacious Rescue in History Author: Antonio Mendez and coauthor Matt Baglio ISBN: : 978-0-14-750973-4 … more
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Nolan made an excellent comic book film in Batman Begins. The second film had an excellent first half but lost it in the second half with the Harvey Dent/Two Face story. This third film is … more
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TStocksl reviewed The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why Du....
January 17
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This old blues line pretty much sums up van Heerden's scientific conclusion about the primary source of the flood's damage. He writes with the passion of an angry man still in the midst of the … more
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TStocksl reviewed The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why Du....
January 17
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This old blues line pretty much sums up van Heerden's scientific conclusion about the primary source of the flood's damage. He writes with the passion of an angry man still in the midst of the … more
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TStocksl reviewed Pygmalion and Three Other Plays (Barn....
January 13
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George Bernard Shaw writes with the direct impact of a sledgehammer to the side of the head. Make no mistake, these aren't cute little social comedies. I read this collection based on … more
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TStocksl reviewed Unnatural Death (Lord Peter Wimsey My....
January 09
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I added "anything by Dorothy Sayers" to my reading wish list based on my reading of Jacques Barzun's amazing From Dawn to Decadence (my best book of 2012). Sayers was a multi-path … more
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