Curiously incurious, for a book called "A Curious Man."This is a biography of Robert L. Ripley, creator of "Believe It or Not"--the first in some fifty years. Thompson had access to a vast amount of archival material, both at Ripley Entertainment Industries and squirreled away at different librar...
lan Shepard was the brashest, cockiest, and most flamboyant of America�s original Mercury Seven, but he was also regarded as the best. Intense, colorful, and dramatic�the man who hit a golf ball on the moon�he was among the most private of America�s public figures and, until his death in ...