Madeleine Albright has long been one of my favorites. Her story is a fascinating one. Born in 1937 in a sovereign Czechoslovakia, her...

A lot of sports books lately - but what else would we talk about on Opening Day? As a lover of history and sports, I adored this book...

In honor of this week’s well-earned, unsurprising early retirement by the best tight end the game has ever seen, I include this “book”....

There are a lot of reasons the life of James Cook resonates with us today, more than two centuries after his iconic death at the hands of...

I’m coaching Bobby’s baseball team this year, and our first practice will be this afternoon, so I’m in a hardball state of mind. Our...

Lonely Planet puts out the best road-trip guides. We wore out their Pacific Northwest version during our years in Washington, and have...

I first bought this book as a gift for my physician wife, who encounters and battles skin cancers every day. Last year, when yet another...

Among my non-presidential American political heroes, Henry Clay is pretty high up on the list. He was supremely talented, relentlessly...

Later today I'll be sworn in as a member of the Select Board in Kensington. It's a small town here, with a little over 2,000 people....

During our senior year at Exeter High, my best friend Nate Oxnard gave me this book for Christmas. In the 27 years since, I have referred...

A beloved relic from my senior year at UNH serves as today’s reminder to get out there and vote in your municipal elections. All the...

The 2000 US presidential election looms large in our recent memory. Depending on your political ideology, it was either a blatant theft...