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Brian Jay Jones
Brian Jay Jones is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution by David O. Stewart
A Hard Day's Write, 3e: The Stories Behind Every Beatles Song by Steve Turner
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
Too Fat to Fish by Artie Lange
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
A Wolf at the Table: A Memoir of My Father by Augusten Burroughs
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Favorite authorsRobert A. Caro, Washington Irving, Stephen King, Harvey Kurtzman, David McCullough, Alan Moore, John Steinbeck (Shared favorites)
About meBiographer Brian Jay Jones spent nearly two decades as a writer, speechwriter, and public policy analyst, serving elected officials at three levels of government, including nearly ten years in the United States Senate. Despite this background, he continues to write non-fiction.
Brian's work is noted for its seamless blending of research with an engaging, highly-readable narrative voice. His writing has been praised not only for its scholarship, but for its "grace, wit and empathy," and a "chatty, charming, and irreverent style."
Brian's first book, Washington Irving: An American Original, has been hailed as the definitive portrait of the 19th century American writer and celebrity -- and the first true biography of the writer in more than 80 years. The New York Times called it "charming," the Associated Press thought it "authoritative," and Michael Dirda of The Washington Post Book World declared it "a fine biography -- engaging, clearly written and well researched." Which pretty much made Brian's year.
About my libraryI'm taking a somewhat different tact with this site, starting with a 'day one' approach where I'll add books as I read them, rather than trying to recreate my own library (apart from a few favorite biographies that I can't resist sticking on the shelf).
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Member sinceJun 17, 2009
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I've got dreams, of course I've got dreams." Then they put the box
away and bring it out once in a while to look in it, and yep,
they're still there. These are great dreams, but they never even
get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to
put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How
good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.
- Erma Louise Bombeck
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