Dad's Half-Track

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Dust Bowl

The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl by Timothy Egan

Stunning.  I had no idea the Dust Bowl was this brutal.  It's hard to fathom what those who stayed and lived through it endured.  I highly recommend this book.  As the Cleveland Plain Dealer puts it, the book "haunts a reader from the first pages."
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Amazon Selling More E-books

Traditional new book sales on Amazon now trail the sale of e-books.

An Automotive Atrocity

Six Men Who Built the Modern Auto Industry by Richard A. Johnson

The author of this book is the Managing Editor of Automotive News.  His subjects are Henry Ford II, Soichiro Honda, Lee Iacocca, Bob Lutz, Ferdinand Piech, and Eberhard von Kuenheim.  While the book contains a lot of information that could have been interesting if dealt with properly, it's a mess in its finished form.  Rambling and redundant, Six Men clearly lacked professional editing.  I've seldom struggled this much to finish a book.
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Try to Avoid the Shuffling Folks with Sightless Eyes

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

As of May 2011, the paperback version of the book, published in 2007, remains an Amazon top seller with a sales rank of 306.  According the the Dallas Morning News, the book is "probably the most topical and literate scare since Orson Welles's War of the Worlds radio broadcast."  The authentic feel generated by the oral history format makes it easy to slip into the mindset of history researcher.
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