Cover of “Five Letters From Prison That Have Changed the World” by Rodney Walker. (Amazon Pro Hub)Letters that have transformed the world have come from the very best persons and some of the very worst. Both categories are represented in “Five Letters From Prison That Have Changed The World,” by Rodney Walker, a U.S. history teacher….
Book Review: ‘Five Letters From Prison That Have Changed the World’
June 6, 2022
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Book Review: ‘Best Seat in the House: 18 Golden Lessons From a Father to His Son’
June 6, 2022
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Arnold PalmerArts & CulturebooksBrightgary PlayerJack NicklausLife & TraditionWorld Gold Hall of Fame
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June 19 celebrates Father’s Day and, for golf devotees, the final play of this year’s U.S. Open will coincide on the same day. It will be held at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts. I’m a golf devotee. I’m not a player. I’d like to be a player but my skills on the course are…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for June 3–9
This week, we feature a young readers’ set about a silly maid; a pillar of Western civilization; and a magical novel about mother-daughter love. Fiction Queen of My Heart ‘One Italian Summer: A Novel’ By Rebecca Serle Thirty-year-old Katy Silver has lost her mother, who was also her best friend. They had planned a trip…
Beauty, Enlightenment, and Emerson’s ‘Nature’
June 3, 2022
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"Be Thorough""Nature" by EmersonArts & CulturebooksBrightHenry David ThoreauLife & TraditionRalph Waldo Emerson
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Recently, I took a short hike on a trail in the Smokey Mountain National Park. The trek wound through dense forest, across quick flowing mountain streams, and ended in a short climb to the base of a towering waterfall. In the heat of mid-day, the cold mist from the falls was an exhilarating reprieve and…
61 Books Elon Musk Thinks You Should Read
By Jessica Thomas Although his days are presumably filled with Tesla, SpaceX, cyber pigs, and lots and lots of tweeting, it seems Elon Musk also finds the time to make reading part of his routine. The billionaire businessman is known for sharing all his recommendations and thoughts on Twitter, so it’s no surprise that books are part of that….
Short-Story Writer O. Henry’s ‘The Skylight Room’: Seemingly Irrational Hope
“Star light, star bright, The first star I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this wish I wish tonight.” Children often wish upon a star and never doubt its ability to grant their wish; it holds their dreams. But how long do they hope in the dreams that they shoot…
Book Recommender: ’The Double Life of Katharine Clark,” a Real Life Story of Escaping Communism That Reads Like a Heart-Pounding Spy Thriller
Katherine Clark was an investigative reporter active between the 1940s and 1960s. She was the first female Allied war correspondent entering Berlin in 1945. Her 1950s beat was Eastern Europe. There, she spoke truth to power, what investigative reporters are supposed to do. But she spoke the wrong kind of truth about the wrong kind…
Book Review: ‘The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English’
May 28, 2022
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To the layman, Old English sounds much like the King’s English, like the verbiage in the King James Version Bible, or even the works of William Shakespeare. The layman could hardly be more wrong. Hana Videen, in her new book “The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English,” brings to life a language that has long…
Book Review: ‘Trace & Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan’
May 28, 2022
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"Trace & Aura: The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan"Arts & CulturebooksBrightchristiansPatrick BoucheronSt. Ambrose of Milan
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Patrick Boucheron, the French historian, has written a very insightful work on the life of St. Ambrose entitled “Trace & Aura.” But the subtitle, “The Recurring Lives of St. Ambrose of Milan,” clarifies that the book is not so much about St. Ambrose’s life while he was alive, although those days are discussed, but rather…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for May 27–June 3
This week, we feature a history exploring how the United States decided to join World War I and a classic about a traitor who grows to love his homeland. Fiction Goodness Found, Even in War ‘All the Light We Cannot See’ By Anthony Doerr A French girl named Marie-Laure LeBlanc has fled Paris with her…
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