Buying books for my father is a challenge - almost an insurmountable one. He holds a PhD in optical physics from Harvard, spent his entire career in research at IBM throughout its heyday, directing science and technology development. He has been on every national academy board, engineering or science task force, science advisory panel, held chairs or guest professorships in engineering and physics at MIT, UVA, and UMass - you name it.
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ISBN: 9781451673296
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Published: Scribner Book Company - October 6th, 2015
In 1862, Stonewall Jackson's worldwide fame eclipsed even that of Napoleon. Just a year earlier he was an obscure professor known as "Old Jack." Less a biography than an epic history of strategic gambles and battlefield miracles, with an enigmatic hero who put as much faith in God as he did in war. ~ Reviewed by Charles Bottomley
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ISBN: 9781451673289
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Published: Scribner Book Company - September 30th, 2014
In 1862, Stonewall Jackson's worldwide fame eclipsed even that of Napoleon. Just a year earlier he was an obscure professor known as "Old Jack." Less a biography than an epic history of strategic gambles and battlefield miracles, with an enigmatic hero who put as much faith in God as he did in war. ~ Reviewed by Charles Bottomley
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ISBN: 9780062092892
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Published: Harper - September 2nd, 2014
An important side of history we hardly learn about brought to life. Abbott's accounts of four courageous spies, soldiers, and couriers read like novels and remind us that women, while scarcely accounted for, played a significant role in our nation's history. ~ Reviewed by Jess Hanlon
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ISBN: 9780812978728
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Published: Random House Trade - April 1st, 2014
Think Lincoln had problems keeping the North united? Confederate leaders, always seeking to preserve their own wealth and power, continually made decisions that increasingly squandered middle and lower class citizen support for the war and eventually up went the cry: "Rich man's war, poor man's fight". A surprising and enlightening story. ~ Reviewed by Bill Lewis
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ISBN: 9780143123446
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Published: Penguin Books - July 30th, 2013
Read this brilliant and compelling story of the Civil Rights struggle before the age of automobiles and television...then head to Boston and walk the Black Heritage Trail. Protecting fugitive slaves, fighting the Confederacy, and even ending slavery itself were only the first hurdles for Boston's free black population : the ultimate goal was nothing less than full equality. ~ Reviewed by Bill Lewis
