Books
by David McCullough
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John Adams |
There's no better time than the present - as the US has now elected an enlightened and caring President and made history with its choice of Vice-President - to read this well-researched and very fair biography of John Adams, second President of the fledgling United States. It also offers a heightened awareness of the issues then and still with us and all those rights which, in the slightly more than two centuries that have passed, have been wilfully undermined, but, as we see today, not irretrievably.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 99 Winter 2021) |
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The Great BridgeThe Epic Story of the Building of the Brooklyn Bridge |
Written by this outstanding investigative journalist this is more enthralling than a detective story, set against the sweeping narrative of the social climate of what we know now as the Age of Optimism - the last three decades of the 19th C when all things were possible and miracles of science and engineering were facts of every-day life. A marvellous study of Americana in all its aspects and a tribute to what made America great.
(Kathie Somerwil Ayrton - bwl 98 Summer 2020) |
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