It’s Monday, What are You Reading? Fear

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? 

Fear: Trump in the White House 

by Bob Woodward

 

https://www.amazon.com/Fear-Trump-White-Bob-Woodward/dp/1501175513/

This post is the one-hundred and fifty-fifth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

I’m about half way through as I read this, and there is little we didn’t know, outside the first few promo blurbs and Woodward interview comments. However, I always enjoy reading well researched ‘inside’ stories, and this certain qualifies.


Book Description from Amazon:

THE INSIDE STORY ON PRESIDENT TRUMP, AS ONLY BOB WOODWARD CAN TELL IT

With authoritative reporting honed through eight presidencies from Nixon to Obama, author Bob Woodward reveals in unprecedented detail the harrowing life inside President Donald Trump’s White House and precisely how he makes decisions on major foreign and domestic policies. Woodward draws from hundreds of hours of interviews with firsthand sources, meeting notes, personal diaries, files and documents. The focus is on the explosive debates and the decision-making in the Oval Office, the Situation Room, Air Force One and the White House residence.

Fear is the most intimate portrait of a sitting president ever published during the president’s first years in office.


Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)

It’s Monday, What are You Reading? A History of the Ozarks, Vol. 1

It’s Monday, What are You Reading?
A History of the Ozarks: 

Vol. 1, The Old Ozarks
by Brooks Blevins

https://www.amazon.com/History-Ozarks-Old-ebook/dp/B07F5GTTPL/

This post is the one-hundred and fifty-fourth entry for this meme suggested by Sheila@ One Persons Journey Through A World of Books. [Entries 22-25 in the series were posted at  the Dr. Bill Tells Ancestor Stories]

It is interesting how some books just come along at the right time. This seems to be one. 2nd chapter on Native American tribes moving through in late 1700s to 1820s, especially interesting to me with my fiction work. Good background. My previous research was good, just not in depth. This fills in some detail that was useful.


Book Description from Amazon:

Geologic forces raised the Ozarks. Myth enshrouds these hills. Human beings shaped them and were shaped by them. The Ozarks reflect the epic tableau of the American people—the native Osage and would-be colonial conquerors, the determined settlers and on-the-make speculators, the endless labors of hardscrabble farmers and capitalism of visionary entrepreneurs. The Old Ozarks is the first volume of a monumental three-part history of the region and its inhabitants. Brooks Blevins begins in deep prehistory, charting how these highlands of granite, dolomite, and limestone came to exist. From there he turns to the political and economic motivations behind the eagerness of many peoples to possess the Ozarks. Blevins places these early proto-Ozarkers within the context of larger American history and the economic, social, and political forces that drove it forward. But he also tells the varied and colorful human stories that fill the region's storied past—and contribute to the powerful myths and misunderstandings that even today distort our views of the Ozarks' places and people. A sweeping history in the grand tradition, A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1: The Old Ozarks is essential reading for anyone who cares about the highland heart of America.


Happy Reading!

Dr. Bill  ;-)