#Onceagreatcity @simon&schuster At first, I was pretty interested in this book, but as I kept reading, it really wasn't as much about Detroit as I thought it would be. It's like if anyone who lived in Detroit did anything, it was included. Why was I reading about the assignation of JFK and Martin L...
The title of David Maraniss' well-researched tome, Barack Obama: The Story, doesn't reveal all that much about its contents. As he mentions in the introduction, we won't be seeing our Obama (aka Barry, aka POTUS 44) until chapter seven of this eighteen-chapter volume, and the narration stops with hi...
"Traditional notions of what constituted success and failure in battle are not easily applied to the conflict in Vietnam, and the Battle of Ong Thanh is no exception—in this clash, as in so many others, the confused nature of the fighting is reflected in different judgments about its outcome. But wh...
Who knew he was so cranky with the press?
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