Preview Shelf by Janice Clauser
Library News and Notable New Books
“Hidden History of Montgomery County, Indiana”, the new book by Crawfordsville Library staff members Rebecca McDole, Jodie Wilson, and Emily Winfrey is on sale at the circulation desk. Just one of its attractive features is the variety of good pictures. Our courthouse, decorated for a big event in 1909, is worth a long, detailed, look, and an attractive song sheet illustrates a whimsical, artistic style practiced at the turn of the twentieth century. A “good read”, the book also has unique “local history” value. Congratulations to its authors.
Other new history books on the Crawfordsville District Public Library shelves deal with American studies. Chris DeRose’s “Founding Rivals” profiles Presidents Madison and Monroe, who ran against each other for Congress in 1789, the only time two future presidents have contested one congressional seat. Madison’s election ensured the passage of the Bill of Rights, while Monroe’s election would have ensured its failure. This is a provocative book. “1812” by George Daughan recalls the tiny, battle-tested team of American commanders, seamen, and privateers who took on the haughty skippers of the Royal Navy. “William Henry Harrison” by Gail Collins tells how his “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign transformed the way candidates pursued the presidency, the first such schedule that featured personal appearances by the candidates. “Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues” brings Moyers’ public television program close, with subjects like the politics of food, race in the age of Obama, aging in America, the power of poetry, wars in the Middle East, the conflict over gay marriage, and the fate of the American newspaper.
“Hedy’s Folly” the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, “the most beautiful woman in the world” by Richard Rhodes, and “Betty & Friends” by Betty White are new stories of busy American women. Hedy fled to America before World War II and used her early experience being married to a Nazi to patent a jam-proof radio guidance system with George Antheil, her American husband–inventor. Betty encourages us to visit zoos and report their benefits as well as things we don’t like.
This brings us to “The Eighty-Dollar Champion” by Elizabeth Letts about Snowman, a forme
r plow horse, spied on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse by Harry de Leyer, who recognized the spark in his eye. Needing money, the new owner who’d survived the horrors of the Nazi occupation, practiced “never gave up” and together they became jumping champions in national horse shows. “Eisenhower 1956” is David Nichols’ story of the President’s year of crisis as he guided the country through the Suez Canal crisis. Hundreds of documents now declassified enable the reader to look over Ike’s shoulder as he grapples with the greatest international crisis of his presidency.
“100 Yards of Glory” contains pictures and text about greatest moments in National Football
League history, put together by Joe Garner and Bob Costas with a foreword by Joe Montana. An original ten-part documentary CD is included.
“Hidden History of Montgomery County, Indiana”, the new book by Crawfordsville Library staff members Rebecca McDole, Jodie Wilson, and Emily Winfrey is on sale at the circulation desk. Just one of its attractive features is the variety of good pictures. Our courthouse, decorated for a big event in 1909, is worth a long, detailed, look, and an attractive song sheet illustrates a whimsical, artistic style practiced at the turn of the twentieth century. A “good read”, the book also has unique “local history” value. Congratulations to its authors.
Other new history books on the Crawfordsville District Public Library shelves deal with American studies. Chris DeRose’s “Founding Rivals” profiles Presidents Madison and Monroe, who ran against each other for Congress in 1789, the only time two future presidents have contested one congressional seat. Madison’s election ensured the passage of the Bill of Rights, while Monroe’s election would have ensured its failure. This is a provocative book. “1812” by George Daughan recalls the tiny, battle-tested team of American commanders, seamen, and privateers who took on the haughty skippers of the Royal Navy. “William Henry Harrison” by Gail Collins tells how his “Log Cabin and Hard Cider” campaign transformed the way candidates pursued the presidency, the first such schedule that featured personal appearances by the candidates. “Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues” brings Moyers’ public television program close, with subjects like the politics of food, race in the age of Obama, aging in America, the power of poetry, wars in the Middle East, the conflict over gay marriage, and the fate of the American newspaper.
“Hedy’s Folly” the life and breakthrough inventions of Hedy Lamarr, “the most beautiful woman in the world” by Richard Rhodes, and “Betty & Friends” by Betty White are new stories of busy American women. Hedy fled to America before World War II and used her early experience being married to a Nazi to patent a jam-proof radio guidance system with George Antheil, her American husband–inventor. Betty encourages us to visit zoos and report their benefits as well as things we don’t like.
This brings us to “The Eighty-Dollar Champion” by Elizabeth Letts about Snowman, a forme
r plow horse, spied on a truck bound for the slaughterhouse by Harry de Leyer, who recognized the spark in his eye. Needing money, the new owner who’d survived the horrors of the Nazi occupation, practiced “never gave up” and together they became jumping champions in national horse shows. “Eisenhower 1956” is David Nichols’ story of the President’s year of crisis as he guided the country through the Suez Canal crisis. Hundreds of documents now declassified enable the reader to look over Ike’s shoulder as he grapples with the greatest international crisis of his presidency.“100 Yards of Glory” contains pictures and text about greatest moments in National Football
League history, put together by Joe Garner and Bob Costas with a foreword by Joe Montana. An original ten-part documentary CD is included.
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