Alma Mater: University of Connecticut

Interests: Baseball, Boston Red Sox, Travel, Reading, Watching Movies, Music and Lyrics of Bob Dylan, Works of historian David McCullough, 20th Century American History

"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." —Mark Twain

Mr. Colson's Recommended Reading List:

Non-Fiction:

John Adams (David McCullough)

Team of Rivals (Dorris Kerns Goodwin)

Flags of our Fathers (James Bradley)

In the Heart of the Sea (Nathanial Philbrick)

The Cold War (John Lewis Gaddis)

In Harms Way (Doug Stanton)

Robert Kennedy: His Life (Evan Thomas)

King Leopolds Ghost (Adam Hochschild)

Ghost Soldiers (Hampton Sides)

D-Day (Stephen Ambrose)

Mornings on Horseback (David McCullough)

The Battle Cry of Freedom (James McPherson)

Mayflower (Nathaniel Philbrick)

April 1865 (Jay Winik)

They Marched into Sunlight (David Maraniss)

Patriotic Treason (Evan Carton)

Fiction:

Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck)

Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)

Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck)

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)

The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

25th Hour (David Benioff)

Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)

Mystic River (Dennis Lehane)

Different Seasons (Stephen King)