As a chronic DIY renovator—a year-long cosmetic rehab of a 1910 four-square in Takoma Park, Maryland, a decade-plus rebuild to the studs of a 1926 bungalow in Washington, DC—I really wanted to like Drew Philps’s new book as much as I did Ed Zotti’s 2008 The Barn House: Confessions of an Urban Rehabber.
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Daily Quiz for March 8, 2017
Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables, saw her writing first published at this age.
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Book Review: No Parachute, by Arthur Gould Lee
No Parachute by Arthur Gould Lee Few people had the privilege of recording their […]
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Book Review: Hap Arnold, by Bill Yenne
Hap Arnold: The General Who Invented the U.S. Air Force by Bill Yenne, Regnery […]
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Book Review: So I Bought an Airforce
So I Bought An Airforce: The True Story of a Gritty Midwesterner in Somoza’s […]
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Book Review: X-15, by John Anderson
X-15: The World’s Fastest Rocket Plane and the Pilots Who Ushered in the Space […]
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Book Review: Hidden Warriors
Hidden Warriors: The Epic Stories of Finding, Recovering and Rebuilding WWII’s Lost Aircraft by […]
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Book Review: The Bombers and the Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945
The Bombers and The Bombed: Allied Air War Over Europe 1940-1945 by Richard Overy, Viking, […]
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Letters Home: An Aviator’s Letters During WWII
An aviation cadet’s letters to his family provide a window on Army Air Forces […]
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COD Special Delivery
When a courier carrying top-secret documents needed transport through a typhoon, the crew of […]