Lawrence Sanders’s Edward X. Delaney series comprises five great detective thrillers set in New York City from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s. Books 2 through 5 are the “Deadly Sins” novels. Suspenseful, well-written, and insightful, all five books are a pleasure to read.
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‘Explorers House’ charts the history of the National Geographic Society and ‘National Geographic’ magazine. Written by a former executive editor of the magazine, it offers a fascinating inside look at the organization and its leaders.
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This wonderful collection of first-person reminiscences from 26 old-time major league baseball players is filled with informative and entertaining anecdotes. The players’ stories about their lives and careers really make the early days of baseball come alive.
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American Midnight examines certain dark elements of life that arguably reached their nadir in the United States in the years from 1917 to 1921. It is an excellent book that should serve as a warning to contemporary Americans about the fragility of our democracy.
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In this warm and heartfelt memoir, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin describes her suburban childhood on Long Island and the love for the Brooklyn Dodgers that she shared with her father. She credits her fascination with baseball as one factor leading her to become a historian.
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This collection of short stories represents some of Faulkner’s first published prose pieces. Faulkner wrote the stories while he was living in New Orleans in 1924 and 1925 and most were published there. Only a few hold up on their own, but the book is worth reading to see an early glimmer of Faulkner’s talent.
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If you’re going to read one book about Watergate, this should be the one. The book benefits from its historical perspective, as it was written some 50 years after the events it describes. Its has a broad scope, covering numerous crimes and misdeeds of Nixon and his allies in addition to the break-in at the Watergate complex.
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Graham Greene’s book The Quiet American is a gripping story about murder, love, and war, set in Vietnam during the last days of the French occupation and the beginning of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Beautifully written, the book explores the basic existential question of what it means to be human.
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