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Showing posts with label Books Biography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books Biography. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Book Review: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism. Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025).

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Several years ago, I read and reviewed an excellent book from 2016 about Silicon Valley and particularly Facebook called Chaos Monkeys: Insi...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Book Review: Freezing Order: A True Story of Money Laundering, Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (2022). Bill Browder.

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In 2015, Bill Browder, a young businessman and major Western investor in Russia during the early post-Soviet era, published a bestselling au...
Friday, November 18, 2022

Book Review: Shoot Like a Girl: One Woman’s Dramatic Fight in Afghanistan and on the Home Front (2017). Mary Jennings Hegar.

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One of the historical anomalies of our country's recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq has been the increasing presence of women in our ow...
Thursday, October 27, 2022

Book Review: Flight of Passage (1997). Rinker Buck.

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Hello! As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a mini-sabbatical of sorts the past few weeks. My music and video production activities have ...
Thursday, September 29, 2022

Book Review: Life and Death at Cape Disappointment: Becoming a Surfman on the Columbia River Bar (2021). Christopher J. D’Amelio with Reid Maruyama.

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I discovered this unusual and worthwhile memoir last year in a charming little bookstore in Ilwaco, Washington, on a vacation to the southwe...
Friday, September 23, 2022

Book Review: Wild Tales: A Rock and Roll Life (2013). Graham Nash.

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I saw an article this morning in The Seattle Times about an upcoming small venue local solo concert by Graham Nash, now 80 years old, who (...
Friday, August 5, 2022

Book Reviews: Honorable Mentions List (Non-Fiction, Biography and History)

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Today I'm posting another set of "Honorable Mentions" from my files, with short reviews or summaries, and another five books i...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Book Review: Skyfaring (2015). Mark Vanhoenacker.

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As an amateur sport pilot and lifetime aviation enthusiast, I have read many stories about the exploits and adventures of pilots, going back...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Book Review: Autumn of the Black Snake: George Washington, Mad Anthony Wayne, and the Invasion that Opened the West (2018). William Hogeland.

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This is a dense, very well-written history of the early days of American western expansion, and the immediate post-revolutionary war era, pa...
Friday, July 15, 2022

Book Review: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America (2017). Nancy MacLean.

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I previously reviewed Dark Money , Jane Mayer’s essential study on the long-term plans, motivations and activities of the Koch brothers and ...
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Book Review: A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution (2017). Jennifer A. Doudna & Samuel Sternberg.

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This is a personal account by one of the principal inventors of the CRISPR gene editing technology of how she created these astonishing tool...
Friday, July 8, 2022

Book Review: The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump (2019). Andrew McCabe.

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The author, a former acting director of the FBI and deputy director, who worked with and then succeeded James Comey, combines a biography of...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Book Review: Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations (2019). Admiral William McRaven.

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This is the autobiographical account of a distinguished career as a Navy SEAL and U.S. special operations warrior by probably the longest-se...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

Book Review: The Splendid and the Vile (2020). Erik Larson.

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I had to take two runs at this one to finish it, primarily because I've already read a very large number of books about Winston Churchil...
Friday, June 24, 2022

Book Review: The Storyteller (2021). Dave Grohl.

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For those who don’t know who Dave Grohl is, he might say facetiously that he “was that other guy in Nirvana”, that is, the power drummer beh...
Thursday, June 23, 2022

Book Review: Becoming Bulletproof (2020). Evy Poumpouras.

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A former female Secret Service agent combines stories from her career, protecting the lives of several presidents and their families, with i...