Sam the Banana-Man
Book I’ve Been Absorbed By – The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King, by Rich Cohen. This is the biography of Samuel Zemurray, a Russian Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1891. When he arrived in America with his Aunt, he was 14 years old. His purpose? To…
The Book Missing from High School Curriculums
Unshakeable, by Tony Robbins. High school curriculums don’t make a lot of sense. They pack in plenty of classes that feel laughably useless, they assign any number of uninteresting books that torture even the most avid readers, and teach you very few things about how to survive in the world once you’re out. The most…
Book Review: The Story of my Experiments with Truth, by Gandhi
Some individuals tower over the rest of us by nature of their ability to influence the world. While most of us merely suffer the ebb and flow of history, others appear to possess the unnatural mythical ability to command the sea. One of these individuals was Mohandas K. Gandhi. Unlike most others who fall into…
Book review: The Winter King, by Bernard Cornwell
Some stories have been told to us so many times that they possess an intrinsic hold upon us. These stories are woven into the fabric of our culture; the characters exist in our minds as though they were acquaintances; and the morals and lessons of the tales inform and dictate our very nature. One of…
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