Tag: Craig Bacon

A Cold Day In Hell – Lissa Marie RedmondElmhurst Books LLC374 Pages I was casually looking through a website that I use to look up authors and books, I ran…

First and Always: A New Portrait of George WashingtonPeter R. HenriquesUniversity of Virginia Press240 Pages I considered writing the review of this book in tandem with Realistic Visionary. They were…

Riot Baby – Tochi OnyebuchiTor Books176 Pages Have you ever picked up a book that sounded amazing and started out just as amazing when you were reading it, only to…

Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George WashingtonPeter R. HenriquesUniversity of Virginia Press284 Pages Among the biographies of George Washington that I’ve read, the two books by Peter R. Henriques (next…

Love Canal: A Toxic History From Colonial Times to the PresentRichard S. NewmanOxford University Press328 Pages I read Love Canal by Richard S. Newman immediately after I read Paradise Falls…

The Life of George Washington – John MarshallFranklin Classics394 Pages In the course of a huge reading project like the Presidential one I’m undertaking, two things happen. First, it’s more…

Paradise Falls – Keith O’BrienPantheon Publishing480 Pages Paradise Falls by Keith O’Brien is subtitled “The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe.” There are several points throughout the book that I…

Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh & the Rise of Right Wing Extremism— Jeffrey ToobinSimon & Schuster426 Pages Being a local history guy, I often find myself gravitating towards history books that have…

Washington at the Plow – Bruce A. RagsdaleBelknap Press368 Pages Washington at the Plow by Bruce A Ragsdale is another new publication. This one makes the claim to focus entirely…

Lost in Time – A.G. RiddleHead of Zeus Publishing416 Pages Ever since my first trips to the Lockport Public Library when I was a kid, the science-fiction novels were always…