Joe Pace
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #31: Sapiens, A Brief History of Humankind
I actually listened to this as an audiobook a few years ago when I was still running. I have vivid memories of listening to Harari's...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 30, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #30: Lights and Sirens, The Education of a Paramedic
There's something ineffably rewarding and challenging about reading the published works of someone we know. It can be a bit awkward at...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 29, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #29: Franklin Pierce
A BOGO today because Peter Wallner's biography of Franklin Pierce runs to two full volumes. The first covers Pierce's pre-presidential...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 28, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #28: A Sea of Words
I'm finding myself in a bit of a reference kick right now - I'm sure we'll get back to narratives, memoirs, and traditional histories...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 27, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #27: Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
I've always enjoyed collecting quotations. Since the advent of writing, humanity has managed to articulate just about every concept,...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 26, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #26: Castle
I could have just as easily listed MacAuley’s “Pyramid” here. Both of these books loom large in my memories of childhood. There are...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 25, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #25: Black Jacks, African American Seamen in the Age of Sail
I had the great good fortune during my time at UNH to study under some splendid faculty in the political science department. I'm sure...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 24, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #24: Guadalcanal Diary
Like so many before me, I read this book many times as a kid. Tregaskis's simple, elegant prose captures in such stark detail the...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 23, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #23: All Politics is Local, and Other Rules of the Game
On the day I'll be returning to my roots of municipal government here in NH and filing for a term on the Kensington Select Board, it...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 22, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #22: A Civil War, Army vs Navy
I got to know sportswriter John Feinstein a little bit a few years back when his daughter attended the private school where I worked in...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 21, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #21: Race Matters
Once upon a time at UNH, I was on the Martin Luther King, Jr Day committee as a student member. (Yes, it speaks volumes about 1990s UNH...
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Joe Pace
- Jan 20, 2019
Favorite Non-Fiction Books, #20: The Road to Middle-Earth
I love Tolkien. We all do. Well, not all, I suppose. I remember a middle school English teacher once who claimed he was lousy and...
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