Clyde H. Farnsworth,Shadow Wars, Viking Penguin Press, 1988.

Rumors of the revival of medieval alchemy surfaced in Israel. Newly immigrated physicists from the USSR had supposedly bombarded bismuth in giant proton accelerators to obtain isotopic gold and were bringing the technology to Israel. This became the nucleus of" Shadow Wars" ----good guys and bad

Richard Feigen,Tales From the Art Crypt, Knopf Publishing, 2000.

Tales from the Art Crypt was written piece-meal over four years and published 48 years after my Yale graduation. It is a collection of anecdotes and essays, one dealing with the violation of Albert Barnes' trust indenture concerning the Barnes Collection; and others having to do with political and cultural conditions no longer prevailing in Chicago, my home town, or at Yale, but which profoundly influenced both. For instance the antisemiticism in Chicago in the previous generation, which ultimately resulted in the unfortunate construction of the Museum of Contemporary Art;and at Yale, in the desecration in the 1950's and 60's of the James Jackson Jarves collection of early Italian pantings.

William Goetzmann,Exploration and Empire, and New Lands, New MenTexas A&M Press or Texas Historical Association, 2000.

Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West is one of the great adventures stories in American history. It is, and will remain the definitive history of American Western exploration. The book was awarded the two most prestigious literary awards given in America, the Joseph Pulitzer Prize and the Society of American Historians' Frances Parkman Prize medal.

New Lands. New Men is the story of Americans and world exploration from the discovery of the Antarctic to the race for the North Pole. This book is even more exciting than ExDloration and Emoire in that it takes the reader over the oceans and through the darkest continents. It, too, is the definitive work on the subject that, alas, has been lost in the shadow of Exploration and Empire.

Harry Havemeyer,Fire Island's Surf Hotel, Amereon House 2006.

This is the final volume of Havemeyer's trilogy about resort life along the Great South Bay on Long Island's South Shore in the Nineteenth Century. In 1856 a native of Babylon, David S. Sammis began building a hotel on Fire Island. The Surf Hotel originally was built to house 100 guests. When the South Shore Railroad reached Babylon in 1867 the Surf Hotel was enlarged to hold over 400 guests. Many of New York's most prominent families visited the establishment including the Astors, Coopers, Roosevelts, and Dodges. The hotel thrived until 1892 when a Cholera epidemic brought across the Atlantic Ocean by steamer resulted in the demise of the landmark. (Written by Larry Norton from the book jacket.)