The first selection is "The Great Hunger: Ireland, 1845-1849" by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Ten pages on the science of Phytophthora infestans, aka the potato blight that caused particular devastation in Ireland in 1845-6, followed by eight pages of anecdotes about starving people and poor relief soup tha...
Loved the narrator. Leonard is not for the faint of heart or those who get easily offended by language, both swearing & un PC words.
Unusual Robert Parker novel that mixes baseball history and a new character, Joseph Burke. Burke, after first having Parker define his credentials as a tough guy coming out of the Korean War who really doesn't care if he lives or dies, is hired to protect Jackie Robinson from the cretins of the worl...
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