I actually listened to this as an audiobook a few years ago when I was still running. I have vivid memories of listening to Harari's...

There's something ineffably rewarding and challenging about reading the published works of someone we know. It can be a bit awkward at...

A BOGO today because Peter Wallner's biography of Franklin Pierce runs to two full volumes. The first covers Pierce's pre-presidential...

I'm finding myself in a bit of a reference kick right now - I'm sure we'll get back to narratives, memoirs, and traditional histories...

I've always enjoyed collecting quotations. Since the advent of writing, humanity has managed to articulate just about every concept,...

I could have just as easily listed MacAuley’s “Pyramid” here. Both of these books loom large in my memories of childhood. There are...

I had the great good fortune during my time at UNH to study under some splendid faculty in the political science department. I'm sure...

Like so many before me, I read this book many times as a kid. Tregaskis's simple, elegant prose captures in such stark detail the...

On the day I'll be returning to my roots of municipal government here in NH and filing for a term on the Kensington Select Board, it...

I got to know sportswriter John Feinstein a little bit a few years back when his daughter attended the private school where I worked in...

Once upon a time at UNH, I was on the Martin Luther King, Jr Day committee as a student member. (Yes, it speaks volumes about 1990s UNH...

I love Tolkien. We all do. Well, not all, I suppose. I remember a middle school English teacher once who claimed he was lousy and...