Audiobook Review | Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and the Battle for Chicago
Authors Max Allan Collins and A. Brad Schwartz unravel the compelling tale of infamous Chicago criminal, Al Capone, and Eliot Ness, the man who brought him down.
Audiobook Review | Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Last 31 Hours by Joseph Rosenbloom
Recasting an icon as mortal, author Joseph Rosenbloom studies activist Martin Luther King Jr. in his final day and then some.
Audiobook Review | The Promise of the Grand Canyon by John F. Ross
John F. Ross examines the life of John Wesley Powell and the Civil War amputee’s transition to a Reconstruction-era Jeremiah warning of unchecked expansion.
Audiobook Review | The Strange Case of Dr. Couney by Dawn Raffel
Biographer Dawn Raffel covers the work of physician Martin Couney, inventor of incubators which saved thousands of premature babies' lives.
Audiobook Review | A Quest for Roanoke in ‘The Secret Token’ by Andrew Lawler
Author Andrew Lawler examines the gamut of leads as well as 400-plus years of unprovable elucidations of the mystery of the long-lost colony of Roanoke.
Audiobook Review | Rocket Men: The Daring Odyssey of Apollo 8 by Robert Kurson
Author Robert Kurson chronicles astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Ander journey to the moon on a space mission filled with setbacks.
Book Review: Frederick Douglass, by David W. Blight
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight, Simon & Schuster, 2018; $37.50
Audiobook Review | The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
Daniel Stone’s text is a charming study of botanist David Fairchild whose legacy includes introducing Americans to avocados, cashews, nectarines, soy beans
Audiobook Review | The Watergate: Inside America’s Most Infamous Address
Political consultant and author Joseph Rodota captures the Watergate’s fifty years playing host to Washington’s powerful and notorious.
Audiobook Review| Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance
"Smoketown" highlights milestones in black history and athletes and musicians in Pittsurburgh's Hill District amidst a cultural renaissance in the 1930s
Audiobook Review| The Woman’s Hour: The Great Fight to Win the Vote
Elaine Weiss chronicles the steps that brought the 19th Amendment to the doorstop of enactment and suffragists’ heroics in achieving ratification.
Audiobook Review| Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House
Author Joshua Zeitz explains how the men behind LBJ’s Great Society made desegregation the building block for governmental programs.
Audiobook Review| Inside Camp David by Michael Giorgione
Author Michael Giorgione brings listeners inside the gates of America's historic presidential retreat.
Audiobook Review| How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Alan Pell Crawford makes Mark Twain’s financial woes and lousy investments seem nearly as entertaining as the humorous writer’s fiction
