James Baker is a living legend. The book by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser emphasizes that on multiple levels. ‘The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A Baker III’ is not a light weekend read. It is nearly 600 pages tracking the life and times of…

Michael Lewis is the best damn non-fiction American writer there is today. There, I said it. Go prove me wrong. ‘The Fifth Risk’ is essentially a couple of long magazine articles shoved into a book which is ok with me. Why? Cause it is Michael Lewis making heroes out of…

Every so often I swing back over into fiction. Usually it’s something Neal Stephenson or William Gibson writes that gets me interested. Well Stephenson got me again with his latest book ‘Termination Shock.’ In typical Stephenson style, it’s long winded and leaves something to be desired. The book is about…

This is the first book by Keith Dunnavant that I have read and I certainly plan on reading his others. ‘Montana: The Biography of Football’s Joe Cool’ is a great read. Dunnavant guides the reader through the life of NFL Hall of Fame QB Joe Montana who many consider to…

I read Chris Whipple’s other book ‘The Gatekeepers’ a few years ago and his latest one, ‘The Spy Masters’, falls into the same kind of ‘inside baseball’ for DC bureaucrats which is not to say that it isn’t interesting. In fact it’s incredibly interesting but you gotta be into wanting…

This book was disappointing. I’d leave it at if I could but since this is 2021 and we all feel like our voice should be heard so I’ll keep writing. ‘Extraterrestrial’ is written by Avi Loeb who has a much better resume than I do. In fact I’d get real…

‘It’s How We Play The Game’ is a solid business book. Probably because its author Ed Stack is your everyday guy and a guy who laid it all on the line to build Dick’s Sporting Goods into the country’s largest sporting goods retailer in the country. Stack is Chairman of…

WeWork, let’s be honest, it was a sh*t show under the founder and CEO Adam Neumann and it’s hard to find a voice out there that says anything different. In fact it probably still is a sh*t show. Because of this, you normally get a good book and we have…

Michael Lewis is an amazing writer. We should all already know this but sometimes I feel compelled to say it again and again after I read one of his books. ‘The Premonition’ is his latest and, yeah, it’s good. It’s good because the people — or characters — are developed…