Alexander Hamilton

I admit I have never seen the hit Broadway play of this incredible Founding Father. I was browsing my local library when I came across Ron Chernow’s biography of Alexander Hamilton. It definitely did not disappoint. I knew about his poverty-stricken childhood on the island of St. Croix. However, I never realized the impact Hamilton […]

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We live in a time when there are endless documentaries and books about serial killers and other psychopaths. Do we really need another documentary or about Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy? I prefer biographies of individuals who contributed to the advancement of civilization. I want to direct your attention to one of my favorite renaissance […]

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It’s been 9 years since Steve Jobs has died. And I can say his absence is greatly felt in the business world. We all know about Walter Issacson’s seminal biography for which I have not read. However, my favorite blogger Gus Van Horn posted about a biography that is not as well know called Becoming […]

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Dorothy Vaughan, Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Margery Hannah, and Virginia Tucker the NASA Americans have never heard of until movie came out over two years ago. I first heard about Hidden Figures from reading an article in the New York Magazine. The author Margot Lee Shetterly was interviewed about her research on these incredible women […]

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Imagine yourself as a young girl from an obscure German family.  You are asked to move eastward, to the mighty state of Russia.  There you are to marry the future czar who unfortunately turns out to be an insufferable dolt, too inept for his position.  You take matters into your own hands after years of […]

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“There is no horizontal Stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore and let another come to the surface to stay there forever.  Our Stratification is like the ocean where every individual drop is free to move and where from the sternest depths of […]

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I just finished reading a disturbing look into the lives of fashion designers John Galliano and Alexander McQueen. Dana Thomas, a fashion correspondent delves into the lives of these incredibly talented designers in her book Gods and Kings: The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano From my reading, Thomas showed the parallel lives […]

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