There's a reason why Proof of Heaven by Dr. Eben Alexander has spent week after week on the New York Times best seller list. It's full of fascinating insight about the mysteries of the mind, consciousness, and the inter-relationship of the physical and spiritual worlds.
The book is based on Dr. Alexander's out of body experience (OBE) while he lay in a coma in the intensive care unit in the hospital where he worked as a neurosurgeon. He was suffering from a rare form of bacterial meningitis from which recovery is rare. Miraculously, after seven days with no apparent brain activity, he recovers with a jolt, just as his caregivers are preparing to withdraw life support… Read more
In his book Ike and Dick, Jeffrey Frank paints a revealing picture of the strange and unlikely political marriage of Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. It was a relationship that lasted nearly twenty years, surviving "tense misunderstandings, hurtful slights, and the distance between them in age and temperament." As Frank shows, it was a perplexing marriage of differing styles - the smiling but cool and vain Eisenhower and the awkward but calculating and cunning Nixon. Significantly, the author illustrates how "the two men brought out the best and the worst in each other and how their association had important consequences for their respective presidencies."
Every schoolchild in America knows that President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington in April 1865. But how many know that he narrowly averted assassination in February 1861, just days before his inauguration as President. This near tragedy that would have had incalculable implications for US history was prevented through the ingenious efforts of legendary detective Allan Pinkerton. It's an important but little known story of the Civil War era.
As we learn from author Daniel Stashower, Pinkerton's agents had uncovered "the Baltimore plot," an audacious conspiracy intent on preventing Lincoln from becoming President on the eve of… Read more
