Readers' Advisory: 5 Birthdays This Week

July 26 – Mick Jagger is 68! Read Keith Richards’ wildly successful 2010 memoir Life or reserve the new book Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue by Marc Spitz – publication date: September 8.

July 28 – Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) You’ll learn she was more than the creator of Peter Rabbit in 2008’s Beatrix Potter: a Life in Nature by Linda J. Lear.

July 29 – Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) His Democracy in America is a classic study of a democracy in its infancy.

July 30 – Henry Ford (1863-1947) Among the Library’s holdings are Masters of Enterprise, a seven-disc audiobook ; Wheels for the World: Henry Ford, His Company, and a Century of Progress  by  Douglas G. Brinkley; and The American Axis: Henry Ford, Charles Lindbergh, and the Rise of the Third Reich by Max Wallace.

July 30 – Casey Stengel (1890 -1975) Michael Shapiro’s 2009 book Bottom of the Ninth: Branch Rickey, Casey Stengel, and the Daring Scheme to Save Baseball from Itself begins with 1958 when the Giants and Dodgers have moved to California.