Author Susan Goldman Rubin remembers twelves of Hollywood’s female trailblazers in “The Women Who Built Hollywood.” These pioneers changed the film industry for the better, and opened to the door to many talented woman that followed in their footsteps. Rubin profiles ground breakers that become household names, but also spotlights ladies that are often overlooked. […]
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Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History (The Henry Roe Cloud Series on American Indians and Modernity) The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of
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A detailed look at the history of KFC Josh Ozersky provides a throughout biography of the man that become familiar to fans of his original fried chicken, Colonel Harland Sanders. As clearly demonstrated in “Colonel Sanders and the American Dream,” Colonel Sanders was a natural salesman. When his career didn’t flourish practicing law or in
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A must have for fans of Baseball history The research for “Color Blind” by Tom Dunkel is simply meticulous. If you are a fan of baseball history, I simply can not recommend this audiobook strongly enough. The author brilliantly describes the events that led up the 1935 semi-pro baseball tournament in Wichita, Kansas, and allows
Is the legendary Scotty Bowman the greatest head coach of all time? Bowman, who won an astonishing nine Stanley Cup trophies in his illustrious career, is unquestionably the greatest National Hockey League coach, and in “Scotty,” hall of fame goaltender Ken Dryden makes a compelling argument that Bowman is the greatest coach in any sport,
The author offers an interesting perspective on the deadly 1967 Detroit riot, which lasted for a week, and caused $50 million in property damages. The riot caused 43 deaths, and more than 700 individuals were injured in these senseless acts of violence. Locke traces the root cause of the rioting, and points out what occurred
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Mystery cults are one of the most intriguing areas of Greek and Roman religion. In the nocturnal mysteries at Eleusis, participants dramatically reenacted the story of Demeter’s loss and recovery of her daughter Persephone; in the Bacchic cult, bands of women ran wild in the Greek countryside to honor Dionysus; in the mysteries of Mithras,
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It is disheartening to hear of police corruption, not being able to trust those that are assigned to serve and protect. Yet, we live in a imperfect world and “dirty” police officers are among us. Case in point, the rampant corruption that surrounded the seventy fifth precinct in New York City in the 80’s and
This audiobook narrated by Will Collyer reveals why all philosophical explanations of human consciousness and the structure of the cosmos are bizarre—and why that’s a good thing Do we live inside a simulated reality or a pocket universe embedded in a larger structure about which we know virtually nothing? Is consciousness a purely physical matter,
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ABBA Through the Age On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo – the song, not the battle – one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him – and on all of us. Partly a highly personal work of musical
