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If you enjoy history, I recently finished three very good books, on three different topics. The first was "Everybody Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story" by Amanda Vaill. I just picked up this book a few months back, mainly because the cover photo looked like my mom as a young lady. It covers the lives of the Murphys as they entertained the F. Scott Fitzgeralds, the Hemingways, Dorothy Parker, and many others. It was a very intriguing story.
The second was "Conquering Gotham; A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and its Tunnels" by Jill Jonnes. This book covered the personalities involved including Alexander Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt) in his role as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his battles with Tammany Hall, the engineering of tunnels under the Hudson River at a time many thought it could not be done, and the tribulations of financing such a project during several major business downturns.
The third book was "Crosley - Two brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation" by Rusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A. Banks. Powel and Lewis Crosley were an interesting team as they built radios, refrigerators, and ultimately cars. This too was a very intriguing business adventure with the personalities of the two men intertwined with politics and engineering.
The second was "Conquering Gotham; A Gilded Age Epic: The Construction of Penn Station and its Tunnels" by Jill Jonnes. This book covered the personalities involved including Alexander Cassatt (brother of artist Mary Cassatt) in his role as President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and his battles with Tammany Hall, the engineering of tunnels under the Hudson River at a time many thought it could not be done, and the tribulations of financing such a project during several major business downturns.
The third book was "Crosley - Two brothers and a Business Empire that Transformed the Nation" by Rusty McClure with David Stern and Michael A. Banks. Powel and Lewis Crosley were an interesting team as they built radios, refrigerators, and ultimately cars. This too was a very intriguing business adventure with the personalities of the two men intertwined with politics and engineering.