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by Candice Millard (Doubleday 2022) This book tells the astonishing story of the two British expeditions sponsored and funded by the Royal Geographic Society in London to find the source of the Nile River, the longest river in the world, a mystery that had confounded explorers back to Roman times. First, a word of explanation. ApproximatelyContinue reading “Book Review: River of the Gods — Genius, Courage and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile”

It has been over forty years since the Watergate scandal brought the nation to the brink of a constitutional crisis and culminated in the resignation of an American president in disgrace.  That would seem enough time to put this difficult time, and the man at its center, behind us.  But a couple of recent biographiesContinue reading “Richard Nixon’s Coming Out Party”

I grew up on a Kentucky farm with a brother and neighbor boys for friends. It was the 1950’s and our interests were mainly hunting and fishing, and cars. At ages fifteen to seventeen girls had not yet intruded into our lives in a serious way. When we were not in school, we were eitherContinue reading “Off Label Use of TNT: A Boyhood (Mis)adventure”