Entries by Jim McCabe

Can Electives Build Readers?

Background I love electives. They kept me in teaching. For many years in a community college, I taught books like Parallel Time, Walking with the Wind-A Memoir of the Movement, A Hope in the Unseen-An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, Dead Man Walking, etc. as part of ENG 101 classes. […]

Dear Fatherland, Rest Quietly by Margaret Bourke-White

Download an epub file for Apple, and Android devices: Download a mobi file for Amazon devices:   An excerpt from The New York Times review, December 4, 1946 by Orville Prescott. “Miss Bourke-White is one of the most distinguished of American photographers. Before the war she was a specialist in pictures of industry. During the […]

Microbe Hunters by Paul de Kruif

From Goodreads The book discusses the giants of germ theory and does so in a way that makes these scientists approachable as real men with real emotions. It must have been a groundbreaking book when it first came out in the 1920s. It is amazing how many researchers and physicians from my generation read and […]

He Wouldn’t Be King: The Story of Simon Bolivar by Nina Brown Baker

Download an epub file for your Android or Apple device: Download a mobi file for your Amazon device: Reviews: “A finely proportioned narrative.” The New York Times “Worth its weight in gold. A warm dramatic story of a man whose career was one of the most astonishing and colorful the world has known.” Parents Magazine […]

Thurgood Marshall: From His Early Years to Brown by Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark

Download in epub format: Download in mobi format for Amazon devices: Editorial reviews: “Michael Davis and Hunter Clark have crafted a thoughtful, carefully researched and focused biography.” —USA Today “Well-written, informative and lively.” —People “Michael D. Davis and Hunter R. Clark offer a masterfully written tale of an American legend.” — Gannett News Service “Filled […]

Thurgood Marshall: His Triumph in Brown, His Years on the Supreme Court

Download in epub format for Android and Apple devices: Download in mobi for Amazon devices:   Editorial Reviews: “Michael Davis and Hunter Clark have crafted a thoughtful, carefully researched and focused biography.” —USA Today “I highly recommend Thurgood Marshall by Mike Davis and Hunter Clark. This impressive book captures the sweeping drama and courageous struggles […]