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18:9, He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.
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Biography: ''The Beatles''
by Bob Spitz
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Published: 2005; Pages: 979; Rating: Excellent
Excellent book and the best I have ever read about the Fab Four, and I have read a few of them. This book got a lot of publicity when it was first announced as “The” definitive biography of the Beatles. And since it has been published, it has received even more reviews. Some of them have been negative saying the book “drug” in places and some giving it excellent marks as this reader did.
The part I liked best was the early pages where the childhood of each of the four Beatles was detailed better than I have seen in earlier books. It took John and talked about how poor his family was and how he eventually was raised by his Aunt Mimi. He was such a poor student I wonder what he would have ever done if he had not picked up a guitar one day. The book talked about Paul and what good grades he made in school and how his family did have some musical roots. Paul was left handed and it was interesting reading about how he tried to play with the guitar upside down and restrung it backwards a one time to make his own style of music. None of the Beatles could read music, they just made it. And of course Paul always liked the girls. It talked about George and how he dazzled the other Beatles with his guitar playing when he was first introduced to them back in their early days as the Quarry Men. George was the youngest and was once escorted out of a bar the Beatles were playing in because he was not eighteen yet. George went his own way with his gurus and spiritual life style. All the way to the end. And then there were a couple of drummers that came before Ringo but they never meshed with the other Beatles. When Ringo joined up with his unique style of humor, the rest of the Beatles loved him and then they became the rock group that changed the world of music and even the culture of the world itself. If you never knew about Pete Best, the drummer that preceded Ringo, you will find him between these pages. Also you will find Stuart Sutcliffe, an artist that was a great friend of John’s that played bass guitar for a while before dying of a brain disorder right before they became famous.
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Posted by Webmaster on Thursday, February 16 @ 00:28:54 EST (742 reads)
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Biography: ''Truman''
by David McCullough
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Published: 1992; Pages: 1117; Rating: Excellent
David McCullough is one of the eminent historians of our time and he wrote a good one here. The first half of this book is maybe the most fascinating biography I have ever read. The latter half dulls down a little bit, but it does well in wrapping up the story and the life of one of our greatest presidents.
Truman really was an everyman’s blue collar type worker and President in that he said what he was thinking and played very little with the double talking professional politicians in big government. Accordingly he was one of those fellows that some people really liked (those that appreciated straight talk and honesty) and then there were some who really hated him (those that did not like having to face the truth or anyone tell them the truth). When Truman did not like you, there was no real challenge in figuring this out.
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Biography: ''His Excellency'' George Washington by Joseph J. Ellis
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Published: 2004; Pages: 320; Rating: Excellent
Book Review by Ivan Vernon
“First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” This eulogy by George Washington’s contemporary Henry Lee struck exactly the right note, and has set the tone of remembrance for the more than 200 years since the first president of this nation died in 1799.
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Biography: ''The First American''
The Life & Times of Ben Franklin
by H. W. Brands
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Published: 2000; Pages: 759; Rating: Excellent
Old Ben Franklin. Here is one of those fellows you hear about all the time and has his name associated with so many aspects of our life and our history. Ever heard of the Ben Franklin stove? He invented it during his elderly years because he had trouble keeping himself warm. Is it the fifty dollar bill or the hundred dollar bill he is on? I don’t have either one of them and cannot remember. But there his picture is on the currency even though he was never an American President. But, come to think of it, neither was Alexander Hamilton. Although Alexander may very well have been a President if Aaron Burr had not shot him at the age of 49. That’s another book.
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 You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"
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