Bakers Dozen

What are you reading right now?

1:* Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech* by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris

The last in his trilogy about Theodore Roosevelt, from his leaving the White House to his death. Big, detailed, but written with a light touch and very engrossing.

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5.*** Tender Is the Night ***by F. Scott Fitzgerald

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Just gave it up - despite its Pulitzer Prize, it didn’t hook me after 3 out of 26 audiobook CDs.

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus

More academic than evangelical, which makes a nice contrast from the others I’ve been reading.

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop. (A short story collection)

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop. (A short story collection)
11. Right now? Right this very minute? Why, the Straight Dope, of course!

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop. (A short story collection)
11. Right now? Right this very minute? Why, the Straight Dope, of course!
12. Hey, so am I!

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop. (A short story collection)
11. Right now? Right this very minute? Why, the Straight Dope, of course!
12. Hey, so am I!
13. The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists, and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth

New category: Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)

What are you reading right now?

1: Liberty’s First Crisis: Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech by Charles Slack
2: Rothstein: the Life, Times and Murder of the Man Who Fixed the 1919 World Series, by David Pietrusza
3: The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser
4: Colonel Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
5. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Forward From Here by Reeve Lindberg
7. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
8. Mark: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary, 2 volumes, by Joel Marcus
9. The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim
10. Heart of Whitenesse by Howard Waldrop. (A short story collection)
11. Right now? Right this very minute? Why, the Straight Dope, of course!
12. Hey, so am I!
13. Truman, by David McCullough

Generals killed in action (plus name of battle or campaign):

  1. Lucius Aemilius Paullus (Cannae)

Too late!- disregard

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)
  6. Michael Abram (George Harrison)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)
  6. Michael Abram (George Harrison)
  7. Oscar Collazo (one of the two Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to kill Harry Truman)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)
  6. Michael Abram (George Harrison)
  7. Oscar Collazo (one of the two Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to kill Harry Truman)
  8. Samuel Byck (Richard M. Nixon)

His scheme would almost be funny if it weren’t so tragic: Samuel Byck - Wikipedia

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)
  6. Michael Abram (George Harrison)
  7. Oscar Collazo (one of the two Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to kill Harry Truman)
  8. Samuel Byck (Richard M. Nixon)
  9. Claus von Stauffenberg (Adolf Hitler)

Failed assassins (and their attempted targets)

  1. John Hinckley (Ronald Reagan)
  2. Lewis Powell aka Lewis Payne/Paine (William H. Seward)
  3. Mehmet Ali Ağca (Pope John Paul II)
  4. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Gerald Ford)
  5. Sarah Jane Moore (also Gerald Ford!)
  6. Michael Abram (George Harrison)
  7. Oscar Collazo (one of the two Puerto Rican nationalists who tried to kill Harry Truman)
  8. Samuel Byck (Richard M. Nixon)
  9. Claus von Stauffenberg (Adolf Hitler)
  10. Arthur Bremer (Alabama Governor George Wallace)