Bury Me In A Pot Bunker – Pete Dye with Mark Shaw, 1995 [Revised 1999] ★★

Golf's Bogeyman Looks Back

Resentment is the price many incur for being forward-thinking. This is true as well when designing golf courses.

When Pete Dye oversaw the opening of his Harbour Town Golf Links in South Carolina in time to host a 1969 PGA Tour event, tournament participants were apoplectic. Greens were much too small. Bunkers were much too large. Trees were everywhere.

A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man – James Joyce, 1916 ★★★½

A Portrait of Many Parts

There were times reading A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man where I was convinced that this was not only a great novel, but the greatest ever written in the whole history of mankind.

Other times, I felt it wasn’t even very good.

Still, consider this not only an appreciation of a literary cornerstone, but a recommendation. A Portrait Of The Artist is well worth your time. Just be aware that it goes on some wide tangents and gets a bit preachy.

Grace And Power – Sally Bedell Smith, 2004 ★★½

Love, American Style

Power couples are formidable when seen from the outside; the realities of any romance built around image concerns and status enhancement are more complicated. Take the glamorous Jackie Kennedy and her husband, the 35^th President of the United States.

As explained by Sally Bedell Smith, it was a bond complicated by Jack Kennedy’s needs to lead a nation and squeeze in as much extramarital sex as possible. Jackie’s job was to support her husband through his travails and ignore his myriad infidelities as best she could.