Author: John

Edison
by Edmund Morris

 June 7, 2020

This biography of America’s greatest inventor is a great way to spend some reading hours.

That Old Ace in the Hole
by Annie Proulx

 May 25, 2020

I’ve made enough bad recommendations to the club that I have to forgive whoever recommended this book.

The Great Influenza
by John Barry

 May 18, 2020

Today’s Coronavirus pandemic bears an eerie and tragic resemblance to the 1918 Influenza.

The Plot Against America
by Philip Roth

 May 5, 2020

Philip Roth imagines a presidential campaign and victory by Charles Lindbergh that eerily resembles that of Donald J. Trump.

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
by Jamie Ford

 April 30, 2020

This (wait for it . . . ) bittersweet romance happens amidst the evacuation and interment of Japanese citizens at the start of WWII.