Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage served as a clarion call to every American. The inspiring true accounts of eight unsung heroic acts by American patriots at different junctures in our nation’s history, Kennedy’s book became required reading, an instant classic, and [...]

Dallas 1963 Who We Were When Everything Changed This is a great issue celebrating the excellence of what made Dallas…Dallas and the players who were very clear that what’s best for EVERYONE is what’s best for Dallas!!! The issue is filled with interesting history and details on the Dallas business community’s Children of the Progressive [...]

Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is a marvel of a history book. The research is impeccable. The story is fascinating and unforgettable. And the characters are so compelling that they seem to have been plucked from a novel. During World War I, the course of the modern day Middle East was set by a handful [...]

The year 2013 and with 95% of the people believing the Assassination of President Kennedy is a conspiracy, Dallas is off the hook. They tried to kill him in two other cities as well. Now 50 years later…Dallas is free….we as a city can let go… But are the people of The United States of [...]

Growing a perfect moustache, grilling red meat, wooing a woman? Who better to deliver this tutelage than the always charming, always manly Nick Offerman, best known as Parks and Recreation’s Ron Swanson? Combining his trademark comic voice and very real expertise in woodworking – he runs his own woodshop. Paddle Your Own Canoe features tales [...]

An epic journey from Depression-era America to the heart of Hitler’s Berlin The Boys in the Boat is the story of Joe Rantz, a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State, who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression, and a complicated family life full of painful memories. [...]

Fifty stars stand for the states that make up this country. Thirteen stripes remind us of the colonies that fought for their freedom. But the flag has not always looked the way it does today. Its history is as colored and rich as our country’s past. Yet despite the ways the flag has changed in [...]

Those aren’t just unfounded negative stereotypes about 80 million Americans born roughly between 1980 and 2000. They’re backed up by a decade of sociological research. The National Institutes of Health found that for people in their 20s, Narcissistic Personality Disorder is three times as high than the generation that’s 65 or older. In 1992, 80 [...]

Currently in production, Angelina Jolie is directing this phenomenal story of survival, resilience, and redemption. This is the life story of recent SMU graduate Clay Zamperini’s grandfather, Louis Zamperini. I just began the book last night and haven’t been able to put it down. The lieutenant’s name was Louis Zamperini. In boyhood, he’d been a [...]