Joe Pace
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #52: Universal Orlando 2019
A bit of a hiatus coming up here as the family gets in some vacation time in Orlando. I was going to post the Disney World secrets book,...
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Joe Pace
Feb 21, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #51: Crusaders and Pragmatists
Stoessinger's book has stayed with me since I first read it for Tom Trout's American foreign policy class 25 years ago. He evaluates the...
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Joe Pace
Feb 20, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #50: Promises to Keep
I noted yesterday that I'd have an early take on the Democratic presidential primary, including a potential candidacy by Vice President...
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Joe Pace
Feb 19, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #49: 1812, The War That Forged a Nation
We all remember adolescence. Awkwardly trying to fit in and stand out all at once, some days just desperate to survive in a world of...
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Joe Pace
Feb 18, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #48: Dead Presidents
I have tremendous respect for the American Presidency. Probably too much respect. More than is healthy. As a kid I read everything I...
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Joe Pace
Feb 17, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #47: Henry V
English history can be maddening to read. For such a small island, they cram a lot of narrative into every hamlet and bend in the road -...
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Joe Pace
Feb 16, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #46: Physics of the Future
As a science fiction writer, I'm a lousy scientist. I struggled through chemistry and physics in high school despite the best efforts of...
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Joe Pace
Feb 15, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #45: The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus All the Words
I'm going to consider this two-volume set as non-fiction as it's essentially the historic documentation of the most original, scathingly...
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Joe Pace
Feb 14, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #44: My Dearest Friend, Letters of Abigail and John Adams
We've talked about John Adams on here already, but his story is woefully incomplete without mention of his special partnership with one...
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Joe Pace
Feb 13, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #43: The English Dictionary
I'm home, which is good. I feel about nine hundred years old, which is less good, but I'm still here. All I have energy for today is a...
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Joe Pace
Feb 12, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #42: Lincoln at Gettysburg, The Words that Remade America
For the birthday of perhaps our greatest president, I thought I’d share Garry Wills’s enjoyable treatise on perhaps our greatest...
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Joe Pace
Feb 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #41: Huey Long
Demagoguery isn't new in America. Since the inception of the republic we've had ambitious souls who manipulated the masses for political...
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