Having made less than the most of my college years, I’ve been sporadically trying to compensate ever since. (Although the extent of any Remedial Philosophy consists of my current reading matter, the anthology ‘Family Guy’ and Philosophy: A Cure for the Petarded.) A recent clearance sale at a local Borders enabled me to make a smash-and-grab raid of titles like …
• Frommer’s Philadelphia Day by Day
• Raiders & Rebels: A History of the Golden Age of Piracy by Frank Sherry
• Nelson’s Trafalgar by Roy Adkins
• The Wreck of the Medusa by Jonathan Miles
• The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir
• Halsey’s Typhoon by Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
• The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
• A Better War: The Unexamined Victories and Final Tragedy of America’s Last Years in Vietnam by Lewis Sorley
• To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World by Arthur Herman
• Legacy of Secrets: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination by Lamar Waldron
By not having anything discernible on polar exploration, the bookstore missed out a chance to capture more of my S&G money. Bob Woodward would be disappointed to learn that they can’t give his latest tome away. And if there were any books on casinos or Las Vegas, I didn’t scope them out. When I want to read good volumes on gaming, I can just come to the office. We’ve plenty here.
