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Harry Swanson

Harry Swanson had worked in Finance and Administration for 45 years and is now retired. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and a Master’s Degree in Business and Finance. Harry works under such titles as Controller, Director of Finance and Administration, CFO and Financial Management Consultant for both large…

Katie BloomerNovember 17, 2023

Nonfiction

Portrait of the Astors, a Wealthy and Powerful Family That Defined the Gilded Age

For more than 200 years, the descendants of John Jacob Astor dominated American society, style, and commerce. Yet the name Astor signifies little to recent generations. Astor, the Rise and Fall of an American Fortune by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe will certainly make readers sit up and pay attention.…

Claudia KeenanNovember 10, 2023

Fiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Untold Horrors of WWII: Heather B. Moore on Java’s Overlooked History

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

BookTribSeptember 20, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

“When I was 27, I accidentally discovered that my father was Jewish. And that much of what I knew about him and his family was a lie.” Most of us are familiar with a few generations of our relatives. We have met some of them. We know their stories; we…

Jim AlkonSeptember 12, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

A grandmother’s album of photographs and postcards reveals the Belle Époque in Berlin — a time of unrivaled promise, peace, and prosperity — through the eyes of a young Prussian Jewish woman, as told by her grandson Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret (LAEV). In 2016, Frenkel discovered an album…

Peggy KurkowskiSeptember 7, 2023

Nonfiction

Lessons From the Pacific Northwest: The Black Student Movement of the 1960s

In 1967, Stokely Carmichael visited Seattle and delivered a speech that galvanized his largely Black audience. The civil rights activist and future Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party spoke urgently: “. . . it is simply a question of he who has power. And we don’t have that. We…

Claudia KeenanAugust 21, 2023

Nonfiction

Retired CIA Agent Has Cold War Secrets to Reveal in Historical Tell-All

Readers may be convinced Howard Blum has concocted an eye-popping, nail-biting, edge-of-your-seat thriller before realizing it is a remarkable work of non-fiction history. Step aside James Bond to make way for Tennent “Pete” Bagley, a retired CIA agent with secrets of the Cold War to reveal. The Spy Who Knew…

Linda HitchcockAugust 11, 2023

Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Summer of 1876: A Tapestry of History, Old West Legends & Baseball’s Birth with Chris Wimmer

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

BookTribAugust 9, 2023

Nonfiction Podcasts

Books & Looks Podcast: Churchill’s Legacy & The Modern Watch: A Dialogue with Justin Reash

Books & Looks: Real Books for Real Readers was started as a podcast to supplement Blaine Desantis’ website, ViewsOnBooks.com, and expand into audio interviews with authors. With Books & Looks, Blaine’s goal is to focus on real books that real people will read. At least half of the books he reviews are either…

BookTribJuly 5, 2023

Nonfiction

Comprehensive Biography of a Brave Man Who Broke Out of Auschwitz

Jonathan Freedland, longtime journalist for The Guardian, nonfiction writer and novelist, has finally given Holocaust survivor and hero Rudolf Vrba a more balanced portrait than his 1963 memoir I Cannot Forgive and with it well deserved recognition for later generations of readers and scholars. The Escape Artist, subtitled The Man…

Linda HitchcockJune 14, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Teacher’s Bold Courage Facing Ugly Injustices of Civil Rights Era Alabama

The school board has branded me a criminal, a bad guy, unfit to live among decent people … It seems the school board would rather have liars, thieves, murderers, drunkards and gamblers than have a man of my qualification in the county, particularly if the man is Black … I…

Jim AlkonJune 8, 2023

Listicles Nonfiction

Seven Thrilling True Accounts of Cold War Espionage

There’s something thrilling about the life of a spy; it’s romanticized in countless movies and novels across various genres, from James Bond and Jason Bourne to Natasha Romanoff and Sterling Archer. But what do we find so fascinating about these characters and their stories? The cool gadgets and killer action?…

BookTribJune 7, 2023

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“ATOMIC TESTING — STAY AWAY!” The Co-Authors’ Childhood Warning From the CIA

What led to the CIA’s rise, and how did they come to accumulate the power they hold today? From the Patriot Act post 9/11 to Snowden and, perhaps most recently, the documents leaked by the young national guardsmen, what the government is doing to us and others behind our backs…

BookTribMay 30, 2023

Nonfiction

Inspiring Tribute to America’s Little-Known Trailblazing Female Journalists

Kim Todd is a multiple award-winning author and college instructor who has written a meticulously researched work of nonfiction, Sensational: The Hidden History of America’s “Girl Stunt Reporters” (Harper Perennial). This compelling history of little-known late 19th-century journalists achieves the perfect balance between entertainment and education. Writing under pseudonyms, these…

Linda HitchcockMay 30, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Haunting Holocaust Memoir of Survival and Desperation

It was difficult to imagine a time without Nazis patrolling the streets. Their presence was a constant reminder that the Germans had control over everything in our lives, right down to how much sugar we could have in our porridge. Actually, it was much worse than that, as described in…

Jim AlkonMay 26, 2023

Nonfiction

Timely Exploration of the Crusade for a Black History Curriculum in Segregated Chicago Schools

The daughter of an elevator operator who wended his way from rural West Virginia to Chicago in 1903, Madeline Morgan grew up in a city transformed by an extraordinary influx of Black Americans. In an exodus known as the Great Migration, millions of southern Blacks moved north between 1910 and…

Claudia KeenanMay 23, 2023

Harry Swanson

Books & Looks Podcast: Untold Horrors of WWII: Heather B. Moore on Java’s Overlooked History

Nearly Destroyed in a Fire, a Box of Old Photos and Letters Reveals Hidden Family Secret

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

Books & Looks Podcast: Summer of 1876: A Tapestry of History, Old West Legends & Baseball’s Birth with Chris Wimmer

Books & Looks Podcast: Churchill’s Legacy & The Modern Watch: A Dialogue with Justin Reash

Teacher’s Bold Courage Facing Ugly Injustices of Civil Rights Era Alabama

Seven Thrilling True Accounts of Cold War Espionage

“ATOMIC TESTING — STAY AWAY!” The Co-Authors’ Childhood Warning From the CIA

Haunting Holocaust Memoir of Survival and Desperation

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