Musings From an Eclectic Mind

I have decided that, rather than continue to give each book I have read this year its own post, I would instead put together a summary of al...

  Before Alex Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez, even well before Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, there were notable romances involving baseball...

  This is a serious work of history, well researched and written by Thomas W. Gilbert, a Brooklyn-based baseball author. Not only does he bl...

  The 1964 Tokyo Olympics were the first Summer Olympic Games that I can remember (although they were held in October). Names like Billy Mil...

  Mao Tse-tung was a brutal tyrant, pure and simple (the authors didn't use pinyin spellings, which we have become used to since the 197...

A couple of months ago I finished reading my first book of 2021, Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentiet...

The Presidential biography odyssey reaches the most recent group of chief executives. Here goes: GEORGE H. W. BUSH The first President Bush ...