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Nathaniel Philbrick
Positive Philadelphia Inquirer \"Packed with revealing information and high drama, In the Hurricane’s Eye is a must-read for any aficionado of the American Revolution ... The author introduces us to a formidable cast of characters.\
Michael Beschloss
Rave The Philadelphia Inquirer In this revealing new book, Michael Beschloss...has written a monumental cautionary tale tracing how presidents of the past have chosen to exercise their war-making authority. Vividly written, Presidents of War is a sobering and timely look at our commander-in-chief’s awesome war-making powers, and how those powers can so easily circumvent our Constitution.
Mimi Swartz
Rave The Inquirer Dramatic and dense with fascinating medical information, Mimi Swartz\'s Ticker will astonish you ... This book is no highly specialized, academic/medical work à la the New England Journal of Medicine. No. This is a dramatic adventure story on the level of Tom Wolfe\'s The Right Stuff (1979). The colorful characters here, nearly all renowned surgeons and frequently contentious rivals, are all too human, and beyond, with egos and eccentricities on glaring display.
James Lee McDonough
Rave The Tampa Bay Times ...[McDonough] humanizes this fixed, violent caricature of Sherman in his comprehensive new biography ... McDonough's biography is a definitive, full-blooded account of a complex man.
Steve Olson
Rave The Tampa Bay Times In his tremendously exciting and informative new work, Steve Olson not only gives us a thrilling piece of action-packed reportage, but also situates his entire story firmly in the political, economic, scientific and historical milieu ... Olson's dramatic, emotionally moving Eruption is ultimately a book about humanity's scientific relationship to the natural world: How can we better understand and prepare for the earth's threats in the future?