Joe Pace
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #103: The Unexpected President, The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur
To the extent that folks think of American Presidents from the second half of the 19th century, most tend to remember Lincoln and then...
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Joe Pace
Jul 17, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #102: The Woman Behind the New Deal, the Life of Frances Perkins
When the ravages of the Great Depression swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the White House in the election of 1932, it was not...
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Joe Pace
Jun 27, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #101: Savage Inequalities
I first came across Kozol's writing in college. It was 1995 and I was dating an education major. This book was in her dorm room, and I...
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Joe Pace
Jun 20, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #100: A Shopkeeper's Millennium
For the hundredth entry in this series, I'm sharing one of the most important books I've ever read. Johnson's volume is brief - under 150...
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Joe Pace
Jun 16, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #99: Star Trek Memories
I can't speak rationally about my love for William Shatner. More specifically, Shatner's depiction of the swaggering, libidinous,...
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Joe Pace
Jun 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #98: Exeter High School Yearbook, 1993
The deeper the well of memory, the trickier it becomes to separate history from myth. As the years pass by, favorite stories become...
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Joe Pace
Jun 9, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #97: Plagues and Peoples
Disease has been with humanity for as long as we have roamed the Earth, and McNeill skillfully retells our collective narrative through...
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Joe Pace
Jun 2, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #96: The Big Scrum, How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football
I love history, and sports, and Teddy Roosevelt, so there's no universe in which I'd pass by a book covering all three, even one penned...
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Joe Pace
May 28, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #95: Blue Latitudes, Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
I was saddened this morning to hear of the passing of Tony Horwitz, the experiential travelogue author most probably recognize from his...
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Joe Pace
May 23, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #94: Shortest Way Home
When it comes to the Presidency, I've always been partial to candidates who have had some executive experience in government. Some of our...
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Joe Pace
May 16, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #93: Orr, My Story
When I was born in 1975, the Mount Rushmore of Boston Sports was Ted Williams, Bill Russell, Cy Young, and Bobby Orr. Orr was about to...
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Joe Pace
May 15, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #92: American Aurora
When an autocratic President seeks to silence his critics by declaring their attacks "fake news" and journalism is cloaked in strident...
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