Customer Review: This is a fascinating book, especially for those outside the US who may, like me, be almost wholly unfamiliar with the period of history covered. Morris is excellent at making detail interesting and compulsive to read. The book weaves the lives four very different men into a coherent story. The way... more info
Customer Review: This is a fascinating book, whether one is a heart patient oneself or not. The hospital in discussion is Columbia-Presbyterian in New York. Morris "embedded" himself there, staying in the cardiac area, attending surgeries sitting in the back near the nurses, attended staff meetings, all that stuff.... more info
Customer Review: This book makes me angry. A good introductory book explains concepts carefully, step-by-step, and will explain them a second or third time while rewording them. This book presents an idea once and does so in such a poor matter that the reader is left with the burden of hunting down explanations to... more info
Customer Review: This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Apache culture. It may not have the flow of novel but that is not the intention. This book is a glimpse into the lives of the fiercest and most honorable Native Americans that ever lived...the Apache.
Customer Review: This book is the inspiring story of the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl. The fabulous centenarian Doris Eaton Travis takes us on an amazing journey through the ups and downs of one family - members of which just happened to be stage performers. While several of Ms. Travis' siblings met tragic ends, she... more info
