Nathanael Yellis

This book was more personal than I expected. My grandfather, great uncle, and others of that generation in my mother's family were religious leaders. Life Magazine profiled my great uncle, Rev. Dr. Robert Emery Baggs, in his pastorate in Illinois. He and three others led a large mainline Baptist church. My grandfather led efforts around Boston for the Salvation Army. Both contributed to the grand social visions of the postwar church.

This book is well worth your time: online advertising isn't fundamentally different from offline. Internet marketers, I'm talking to you: take a lesson from 1927.

Learning history through biographies is a lost discipline. I hope to regain it during this 50 in 2014 effort.

The Sea is My Brother by Jack Kerouac
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

While you have to endure several characters whose role is to preach Eggers' views on the Internet, this is an inspiring book.

The phone rang four times.