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The Great Halifax Explosion by John U Bacon

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. A great book on a very...

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Tin Can Titans by John Wukovits

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

An excellent narrative of the blue-collar destroyers. Destroyers did not have the firepower of battleships or cruisers or the glamour of the aircraft carriers, ...

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City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

The book is a fascinating look at urban planning (or lack thereof in some respects) from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in America's largest city - N...

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Honor Before Glory by Scott McGaugh

Posted on January 24, 2017 by Jeff Grim / 0 Comment

Honor Before Glory is the story of the 442nd, a segregated unit of Japanese American citizens, commanded by white officers, that finally rescued the "lost batta...

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The Commodification of God

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered. This also explains our abundant and ca...

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Quick Review: I Hate to Leave This Beautiful Place by Howard Norman

Posted on August 14, 2015 by Kevin Holtsberry / 0 Comment

Norman's literate, slightly odd, but ultimately humane style makes for easy and thought provoking listening on the daily commute. It was both captivating and re...

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