Interesting choices so far, including some books and authors I am not familiar with. Here are a few of mine:
GOING TO EXTREMES -- Joe McGuiness
The writer spends one year traveling all over Alaska. and tells what it's like in detail to live in the wilderness, in Nome, and far away places where everything is extreme. Can't put this book down once you start.
WAR DAY -- (Forgot the author)
I never read fiction. I don't like fiction. But this is an account of what the US would be like after a fictitious nuclear war. The writer travels around the country and talks about what he sees and how human natures changes and how it stays the same in many ways. Very interesting book that makes me think 15 years after I first read it. Terrific narratice about the new social structure, economics, and other aspect sof life after the USA has lost two thirds of its population.
THE PATH TO POWER -- Robert Caro
This is the best book I have ever read. It's Caro's masterful work on the early life of LBJ. He talks about what life was like before electricity, before air conditioninog, what politics was like, and how people really lived back 70-80 years ago. The chapter on the Texas Hill Country and how difficult it was for families and working people back in rural American is the finest chapter I have ever read -- ANYWHERE. This book deservedly won the Pulitzer ofr non fiction when it was rleased. Caro's follows ups - he now has the third installment of LBJ's life story at the top of the Best Seller list -- are almost as good. For those who do not know,Caro has made it his life's work to do the complete bio of LBJ. He started his reasearch in 1978 and is not only up to his Vice Presidency. As you can imgaine, this is a great work of time, energy and research. Too bad all historical books are not even half this good.
-- Nolan Dalla
