Book Reports

Polk is one of the five US most successful American presidents in advancing American exceptionalism (the others, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ronald Reagan, and Donald Trump). ***

***Second Five: Nixon, FDR, Truman, Jackson, TR.

Its a different world up there that few of us, even the well traveled, will ever experience.

No hope... any place. No good story in Africa.

A troubled three billion dollar thrift like ASF is one thing...but, what happens when a crisis of such magnitude occurs that government regulatory officials, to prevent financial system collapse, are forced to take remedial steps that go beyond the statutory?

Pages turn into the night when, usually, I don't get through more than a couple of pages, while reading in bed, before dropping off.

Lee Child is the reading equivalent of being addicted to "Candy Crush."

"Darwin's Doubt" opened my mind to the incredible, information rich, complexity of life, and how randomness alone may not be enough to explain it.

Citi's risk schizophrenia did not augur well, I felt, for bank's future success.

Lewis writes a paean to big government as he scores Trump for ignoring the benefit that it does.

Oliver Prince Smith, the Marine General who led his 18K troops into the Chosin Reservoir battlefield, and then, back out may be the most effective US general that you have never heard of.

Oh. The title, "Everybody Lies," derives from the fact that what you click on on the internet is not necessarily what you tell people outwardly.

Utah does not have a water crisis.