[pedonbio]

I just finished re-reading  The Mayor of Castro Street, the late Randy Shilts's biography of Harvey Milk. It's an amazingly well-written story of San Francisco, of social change, and of how Milk earned the loathing of the gay "establishment" by connecting with people who weren't supposed to like gays.

Incidentally, there are some amusing asides, like Senator Diane Feinstein, who is now very social with gays, but who in 1973 didn't bother to hide her distaste. We all mellow with age, I guess.

[homevintner]

 Vagabond Halfback - The Life and Times of Johnny Blood McNally  by Denis J, Gullickson. A good bio about one of the most colorful characters of the early days of pro football and inaugural class member of the hall of fame.

[Dearc]

"Where Have All The Soldiers Gone?" by James Sheehan.

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 Bloody Sunday  by James Gleeson. "How Michael Collins's Agents Assassinated Britain's Secret Service in Dublin on November 21, 1920"

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 Red Road From Stalingrad  "Recollections of a Soviet Infantryman" by Mansur Abdulin

[Breasts]

 Tigers in the Mud: The Combat Career of Panzer Commander Otto Carrius Written by Otto Carrius himself.
A very interesting book.

[homevintner]

Agreed. I enjoyed reading that one a few years ago.

[rtpoe]

 Capitol Men, in which Philip Dray describes the careers of the first black congressmen, against the background of Reconstruction.

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 People of the Dark, The Weird Works of Robert E. Howard, vol. two

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 The Squad and the Intelligence Operations of Michael Collins  by T. Ryle Dwyer

[Lesbian Bob]

 

[pedonbio]

Wow, Lesbian Bob! I'm impressed. That's cool.

I just finished Joseph Ellis's  American Creation. It wasn't nearly so interesting as the Sapphic sisters and their horsey escapades.

[MaxBigfoot]

From the title, that book should be about Lesbian Horses, not Lesbian Women!  Of course, that would be weird.  

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 As Told At The Explorers Club  - Edited by George Plimpton

 Six Days in June  by Eric Hammel. How Israel won the 1967 Arab-Israeli War.

[pedonbio]

I finally read Barack Obama's first book,  Dreams From My Father, which is vastly better than most books by politicians. He had a lot of courage to write the book because, while he roams across a lot of topics, the focus of the book is his exploration of his father, who left when he was two or three and whom he didn't see again, and who was killed in an auto accident when Obama was 21. He starts with the tales his mother and her family told him as a chi1d, about this wise, courageous African exchange student; and as an adult Obama did the research to discover a father who was deceptive, promiscuous, politically inept, and a lousy driver.