Joe Pace
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #67: Pedro
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...
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Joe Pace
Mar 22, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #66: Iceland’s Ring Road
Lonely Planet puts out the best road-trip guides. We wore out their Pacific Northwest version during our years in Washington, and have...
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Joe Pace
Mar 19, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #65: The Emperor of All Maladies, A Biography of Cancer
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...
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Joe Pace
Mar 18, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #64: Henry Clay, Statesman for the Union
Among my non-presidential American political heroes, Henry Clay is pretty high up on the list. He was supremely talented, relentlessly...
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Joe Pace
Mar 17, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #63: Small is Beautiful, Economics as if People Mattered
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....
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Joe Pace
Mar 12, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #62: Great Quotes from Great Leaders
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...
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Joe Pace
Mar 11, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #61: Democratic Governance in American States and Cities
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...
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Joe Pace
Mar 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #60: Fraud of the Century
The 2000 US presidential election looms large in our recent memory. Depending on your political ideology, it was either a blatant theft...
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Joe Pace
Mar 10, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #59: Encyclopedia of Word and Phrase Origins
Before the internet, we used to argue about stuff. Who led the American League in home runs in 1965? Who lost the presidential election...
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Joe Pace
Mar 9, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #58: My Turn at Bat, The Story of My Life
My first exposure to Ted Williams was as the old guy in the fishing boat selling Nissen bread on Boston TV in the 1980s. Come to find...
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Joe Pace
Mar 8, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #57: Charlie Brown ‘Cyclopedia
This set of reference books was my first, and remains deeply important to me. Published in 1980 (which makes them older than my wife),...
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Joe Pace
Mar 7, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #56: Joseph Banks, A Life
Imagine Steve Jobs with social skills, or Elon Musk with scientific chops, or Neil deGrasse Tyson with political influence, and you start...
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