[Fot] Books and books on tape

[Jack W. Drews]

At 02:08 PM 4/9/2007, Jack W. Drews wrote:
>Here are some suggestions I almost guarantee you won't get from anybody else:
>
>Boyd, by Richard Coram. Joe A recommended it to me. The biography of 
>the fighter pilot who changed the course of history as far as the 
>art of war and aircraft strategy are concerned. Nasty guy but great 
>story of sheer genius, who applied the principles of thermodynamics 
>to the principles of military strategy. No kidding.
>
>Over the Edge of the World, the story of Magellan's circumnavigation 
>of the world by Laurence Bergreen. Terrifying story, stupefying adventure.
>
>Enola Gay, by Paul Tibbets, pilot of the plane that dropped the A 
>Bomb. Joe and I met him at his 90th birthday party thrown for him by 
>Richard Taylor, also an FOT TR4 racer, who you may remember from 
>Road Atlanta a couple of years ago.
>
>Also the story of Richard Taylor digging up the P-38 from under the 
>Greenland Ice. Great adventure by a guy we all know. I don't 
>remember the title. Richard - Joe? Title?
>
>How Christianity Changed the World, by Alvin Schmidt. The most 
>interesting stuff I've ever read about the culture existing in the 
>civilized world at the time of Christ.
>
>Life at Full Throttle by Janet Guthrie - famous woman driver. Fast 
>read. Whatta person. It has the best printed words I've ever read on 
>the sensation of driving a race car at speed.
>
>Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile. How one maverick senator 
>funded virtually the entire effort to overthrow the Taliban in 
>Afganistan, funneling billions of dollars into Afganistan all 
>through the back channels of government, with never a vote and never 
>an approval. Spent a lot of the government's dough on himself and 
>his lady friends, too.
>

uncle jack 



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