Tag: History
The Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in the US in 1915!
The Presidents’ War – Chris DeRose
Book 5 of 2014 – Theodore Roosevelt and the Assassin – Gerard Helferich
Book 17 of 2013 – The Imperial Cruise – James Bradley
In 1905 Theodore Roosevelt sent the largest diplomatic mission in US across the Pacific to Asia. The mission was led by his Secretary of War William Howard Taft and the group included his daughter Alice. James Bradley’s book about this mission The Imperial Cruise is Book 17 of 2013. During the…
Book Number 9 of 2013 – The President and the Assassin….
Ok so which of the four people pictured above can you identify? Before I read Book Number 9 for 2013, I could have maybe identified two! The first two are the key players in the book, while persons three and four helped nudge number two along! The first two are…
Book 3 of 2013 – Destiny of the Republic – Candice Millard
Borrowing the closing line from King Kong and morphing it a little “Oh no, it wasn’t Giteau that killed Garfield, it was the doctors!”, makes it fit Book Number 3 of 2013 Destiny of the Repbulic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President by Candice Millard. The…
Book 8 of 2012 – A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland
Imagine a presidential candidate is accused of fathering a child out of wedlock! Oh, yeah, we had that with John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. Only this candidate admitted paternity, the child was named after his best friend and he still was elected the 22nd president of the United States!…