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Star Mounds by Ross Hamilton. This is the follow up book to his excellent previous work which examined the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, The Mystery of the Serpent Mound. The second book looks at many other such ancient earthworks in America.
It’s a shame that so little attention is given to these amazing and mysterious structures...and for anyone who is interested in these things, his first book on the Serpent Mound is truly profound, imo.
It’s a shame that so little attention is given to these amazing and mysterious structures...and for anyone who is interested in these things, his first book on the Serpent Mound is truly profound, imo.
I'm on book five of Winston Churchill's six book set on the Second World War. We've just landed in Sicily, after the great battles of Tunesia. Great stuff and highly recommended.
Just finished the last of Rick Atkinson's Liberation Trilogy: "The Guns at Last Light: The War in Europe, 1944-1945," the final volume of his Liberation Trilogy
Finishing up "The Complete Sherlock Holmes" collection, imagine that! Fixin to start another Clive Cussler book, I'm also finishing up "The Pipe Book" by Alfred Dunhill.
Baseball Book. Tis the Season.
Try Bullards, "One Shot at Forever.." As good a book on the sport as I have read in ten years.
Try Bullards, "One Shot at Forever.." As good a book on the sport as I have read in ten years.
The Years with Ross, a memoir by James Thurber about Harold Ross, the founding editor of the New Yorker magazine.
Fascinating. He had all these brilliant literary and art folks at his disposal, but had little cultivated literary or artistic
taste. He was a newspaper man from Colorado, but he had a clear vision of what he wanted the magazine to be, despite
not always understanding the material he included. He'd ask others to explain it to him. The magazine was so good, it
could command the best talent around. Ross was brilliant at maintaining a focus of power in his little world, even though
he'd avoid meeting staffers or talking to them much. Thurber, who grew progressively more blind over the years, was
an exception, and was one of the writers who made Ross able to do what he did, although Thurber has a more modest
view of himself. Ross was swindled out of a large amount of money by a personal secretary, and he had a serious gambling
habit and couldn't stay married, but his magazine prospered and went on after he died and is with us today, still drawing
top talent.
Fascinating. He had all these brilliant literary and art folks at his disposal, but had little cultivated literary or artistic
taste. He was a newspaper man from Colorado, but he had a clear vision of what he wanted the magazine to be, despite
not always understanding the material he included. He'd ask others to explain it to him. The magazine was so good, it
could command the best talent around. Ross was brilliant at maintaining a focus of power in his little world, even though
he'd avoid meeting staffers or talking to them much. Thurber, who grew progressively more blind over the years, was
an exception, and was one of the writers who made Ross able to do what he did, although Thurber has a more modest
view of himself. Ross was swindled out of a large amount of money by a personal secretary, and he had a serious gambling
habit and couldn't stay married, but his magazine prospered and went on after he died and is with us today, still drawing
top talent.
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