by Generals Wrestling | Sep 28, 2012 | Reading Room, Uncategorized
“Nothing less than a masterwork of contemporary journalism…An angry, brilliant, fiercely useful, absolutely essential book.” – The New Republic In “A Problem from Hell” America in the Age of Genocide Samantha Power examines many of the major genocides of the...
by Generals Wrestling | Dec 13, 2011 | Reading Room
The Art of Learning is a book by Josh Waitzkin, the kid from Searching for Bobby Fischer. He talks about his struggles dealing with the competition and publicity he faced as an elite chess player, why he ended up quitting the game and how he applied the lessons from...
by Generals Wrestling | Dec 1, 2011 | Reading Room
“Here is a story that is at once a page-turner and a powerful stimulus to thought.” John Rowe Townsend, Auther of The Islanders Wicked is the book that is the basis for the well-known Broadway musical of the same name. While this book elaborates on L. Frank Baum’s...
by Generals Wrestling | Nov 17, 2011 | Reading Room, Uncategorized
“A vital gem… a kick in the ass.” – Esquire Steven Pressfield is better known for being the author of The Legend Of Bagger Vance. This book was given to me by an old girlfriend to help me overcome some writer’s block I was having with my music career. ...
by Generals Wrestling | Nov 11, 2011 | Reading Room, Uncategorized
Soccernomics by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski attempts to apply the science of stats to the world’s most popular sport: association football. Soccer is incredibly hard to judge on stats alone, however. It’s easy to see what goes into the creation of a run, but what...
by Generals Wrestling | Oct 31, 2011 | Reading Room, Uncategorized
“There are very few coaches who have positively impacted the game of basketball and the people who coach it as Don Meyer has done. His passion for the game, for teaching and for building character as well as his commitment to team are legendary. Coach Meyer has...