All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek by Dave Marinaccio
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History made interesting! Wow! ~ Jaclyn
The Tender Bar: A Memoir by J.R. Moehringer
A moving, vividly told memoir full of heart, drama, and exquisite comic
timing, about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a
bar. J .R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: It was the sound of
his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his
first words. As a boy, J.R. would press his ear to a clock radio,
straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of masculinity, and
the keys to his own identity. J.R.'s mother was his world, his anchor,
but he needed something else, something more, something he couldn't
name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon
that was a sanctuary for all types of men-cops and poets, actors and
lawyers, gamblers and stumble bums.....When the time came for
J.R. to leave home, the bar became a way station-from his entrance to
Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student way out of his
element; to his introduction to tragic romance with a woman way out of
his league; to his stint as a copy boy at the New York Times, where he
was a faulty cog in a vast machine way out of his control. Through it
all, the bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and
eventually from reality-until at last the bar turned J.R. away. Riveting,
moving, and achingly funny, The Tender Bar is at once an evocative
portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction
of how some men remain lost boys." ~from the Publisher
The extraordinary New York Times bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, from bestselling author of The River of Doubt, Candice Millard.
James Abram Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, a renowned congressman, and a reluctant presidential candidate who took on the nation's corrupt political establishment. But four months after Garfield's inauguration in 1881, he was shot in the back by a deranged office-seeker named Charles Guiteau. Garfield survived the attack, but become the object of bitter, behind-the-scenes struggles for power—over his administration, over the nation's future, and, hauntingly, over his medical care. Meticulously researched, epic in scope, and pulsating with an intimate human focus and high-velocity narrative drive, The Destiny of the Republic brings alive a forgotten chapter of U.S. history." ~ from the Publisher
Thanks for sharing, Jaclyn!
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