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Brian’s 2024 Year in Books
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The Wright Engineers: Inventing the Airplane
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2022
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| Robert Henri’s famous book, The Art Spirit is a collection of thoughtful nuggets about living an art life. It is not simply about painting, as Henri makes clear. The exhortations can be affirming or serve as a kick in the rear for those of us consume ...more | |
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| There’s a fairly heavy dose of “ra-ra NASA” in Glynn Lunney’s Highways Into Space: A first-hand account of the beginnings of the human space program. But maybe that’s appropriate since what Lunney & team accomplished was extraordinary and unprecedent ...more | |
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| Having read literally dozens of books about the US space program, not to mention completing a 1980 master’s thesis on Eisenhower’s space science policy, I maintain that Appointment on the Moon by Richard S. Lewis is still the best single volume accou ...more | |
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| This third volume in the trilogy by John C. McManus needs no review. As in the previous two volumes, McManus continues his masterful use of sources coupled with outstanding wordsmithing. In the off chance that someone is considering reading this volu ...more | |
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| It almost goes without saying that John McManus’ second volume of the trilogy is an extraordinary piece of scholarship. What particularly impresses me is his outstanding use of contemporary source materials. This book is simply awesome. | |
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| In this volume one, Fire and Fortitude: The US Army in the Pacific War, 1941 – 1943 of the three volume set, historian John McManus demonstrates an astounding grasp of immense detail together with a keen sense of – I’m going to say judgement, but it ...more | |
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| Philip Gibbs was an extraordinary writer; and Now It Can Be Told is an extraordinary book though ultimately depressing. Gibbs covered the First World War as a front line correspondent and in this book he details the horror & futility of that clash, a ...more | |
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| Even having read Milt Thompson’s The Edge of Space: The X-15 Flight Program and Michelle Evans’ The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings into Space (both excellent, BTW), I greatly enjoyed Hypersonics Before the Shuttle: A Concise History of the ...more | |
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| Jimmy Buffett was a master storyteller and, in my opinion, a national treasure. So, I picked up A Pirate Looks at Fifty to learn more about his life. The book is, indeed, basically an autobiography in the guise of a 50th birthday adventure, flying ar ...more | |
