Joe Pace
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #79: Walking Across America in My 90th Year
The passing of our friend Mark Connolly has led me to think about some of the people who have made New Hampshire politics such a vibrant...
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Joe Pace
Apr 11, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #78: 1920, The Year of Six Presidents
We’re coming up on 2020, and it’s instructive to consider that years ending in zero have provided some of the most momentous presidential...
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Joe Pace
Apr 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #77: Puget's Sound
I'm a New Hampshire guy. I think I probably made that abundantly clear from my Granite State of Mind series a couple of years ago...
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Joe Pace
Apr 9, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #76: 1776
As a quasi-serious historian, I sometimes feel like I should be torn over writers like McCullough and Philbrick. Their work is the USA...
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Joe Pace
Apr 8, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #75: Continental Liar from the State of Maine, James G. Blaine
Federal government in the United States of the 19th century was an overwhelmingly Congressional exercise. Jefferson, Jackson, and Lincoln...
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Joe Pace
Apr 7, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #74: Nudge
It's never been a secret that I'm an incrementalist at heart, that I believe public policy to be an iterative, not revolutionary...
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Joe Pace
Apr 2, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #73: Cicero, The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician
We often think of Cicero (when we do at all) as a sort of caricature, a central-casting speechifying old dude in a toga. And yeah, he was...
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Joe Pace
Mar 31, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #72: The Republican Party, Its History, Principles, and Policies
At first I contemplated sharing this as an April Fool's Day installment of this series, a little fun in a world that seems to take itself...
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Joe Pace
Mar 28, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #71: The Mighty & The Almighty
Madeleine Albright has long been one of my favorites. Her story is a fascinating one. Born in 1937 in a sovereign Czechoslovakia, her...
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Joe Pace
Mar 27, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #70: Red Sox Century
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...
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Joe Pace
Mar 26, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #69: It’s Good to Be Gronk
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”....
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Joe Pace
Mar 25, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #68: Captain James Cook, A Biography
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...
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