by L Ruby Hannigan | Feb 21, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, History
Have you ever thought about where the Vice President of the United States and his family resided? Charles Denyer has written the history behind finding a residence for the VP. Before the 1970s, Vice Presidents lived in their own homes near Washington D.C. or rented...
by Howard Leighton | Feb 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Film, TV & Theater, History, War & Military
This is a memoir of one man’s experience during the Vietnam War, beginning approximately April of 1966 and ending April of 1975 with the fall of Saigon. It is a beautifully told story by a cameraman with 10 years of experience in Japan who wanted to become a...
by Dick Weissman | Jan 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Music
Following up on his book about the legendary L.A. hit makers The Wrecking Crew, Hartman takes a different tack in this book about LA Rock in the 1970s. He weaves the story around producer Keith Olsen, his studio Sound City, and session guitar player Waddy Wachtel. The...
by L Ruby Hannigan | Jan 11, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History, War & Military
Dorothea Wollin Null was a young six-year-old German girl who lived happily with her family when her world, as she knew it, drastically changed. It was 1943, and she lived in the city of Stettin, Germany when the bombs landed on her very street and her family fled...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 8, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Medicine
Based on the title and the prologue, where editor Clifford E. Trafzer describes how he introduced a colleague to Native American healers who completely eradicated her stage 4 cancer, a reader might expect the rest of American Indian Medicine Ways: Spiritual Power,...
by Howard Leighton | Jan 2, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History, Nautical, War & Military
This is a history book of an element of the Revolutionary War most likely little known to us as Americans, and certainly not recounted in our elementary or high school education about the War. From 1776 through 1783 a series of about seventeen British ships were used...