Review: ‘Tetris: The Games People Play’
Tetris: The Games People Play is an award-winning graphic novel by Box Brown detailing the creation of the iconic video game and its convoluted path to gaming consoles. The title …
Category: History
Honor and glory in a time long past
Another couple of random book reviews from my own blog. Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic by Joanne Freeman shows how the political leaders of the Revolutionary …
A historical inaccuracy I can’t help noticing
Anyone as old as me (67) knows how much Americans (and Brits) used to smoke. For much of the last century, tobacco use was commonplace. Cigars. Pipes. Cigarettes. Snuff. Chewing …
All this and World War I
I read a lot of books. Since I started my blog back in 2009 (jeez!) I’ve blogged about a lot of books. It occurred to me that I could add …
Canton, Ohio Road Trip: Part 2
The second day of our weekend road trip to Canton, Ohio contained planes, Presidents, and First Ladies. That’s because in addition to the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton and …
Canton, Ohio Road Trip: Part 1
You might ask: why would I time and money on a road trip from New England to Canton, Ohio? Sports fans will know the obvious answer: The Pro Football Hall …
Paranoia, paranoia everybody’s coming to get me
Working on my book about paranoia in film, I inevitably wound up reading a lot about it in real life. Not clinical paranoia but political paranoia. As the historian Richard …