Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Year In Books

 I read 22 this year.  The Covid thing helped, I guess

The Powers That Be:
Within the Kingdom of the Media: How Luce's
Time
Paley's CBS; the Graham's Washington Post
and the Chandler's Los Angeles Times
Became Rich and Powerful and Changed Forever
the Shape of American Politics and Society
David Halberstam

12 Years A Slave, Solomon Northup

The Magician, Sol Stein

The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire, Stephen Kinzer

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife,
Bart D. Ehrman

Mickey and Willie: Mantle and Mays, the Parallel Lives of Baseball's Golden Age, Allen Barra

Summer of '68: The Season That changed Baseball-And America-Forever
Tim Wendel

Leadership In Turbulent Times, Doris Kearns Goodwin

The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game,
Edward Achorn

Gulag: A History, Anne Applebaum

Swinging '73: Baseball's Wildest Season, Matthew Silverman

21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari

The Final Season: Fathers, Sons an d One Last Season In A Classic American Ballpark
, Tom Stanton

Red Famine: Stalin's War On Ukraine, Anne Applebaum

Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, Robert A. Caro

Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500 Year History,
Kurt Andersen

Evil Geniuses: The Unmaking of America, A Recent History
Kurt Andersen

Alice In Chains: The Untold Story, David de Sola

Lawrence In Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East, Scott Anderson

Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture In Crisis
,
J.D. Vance

Vision or Mirage: Saudi Arabia at the Crossroads, David Rundell

Highest Duty: My Search For What Really Matters
Capt. Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger with Jeffrey Zaslow

Bushville Wins: The Wild Saga of the 1957 Milwaukee Braves and the Screwballs, Sluggers, and Beer Swiggers Who Canned The New York Yankees and Changed Baseball, John Klima