Charles Kenney
Description
Charles Kenney is an author and journalist. He was a reporter for the Boston Globe for 16 years, and also hosted a live current-affairs interview program called "Boston Common". He now works as a consultant in communications strategy and writes. He has written nonfiction books as well as three novels.
Books
Rescue Men
Describes the role that firefighting has played in the author's family over three generations, beginning with his grandfather's work in Boston's Cocoanut Grove Fire of 1942 and ending with his brother's role after the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Riding the runaway horse
An interesting book about an early computer pioneer, and the meteoric rise of his company and its equally meteoric demise. Perhaps the saddest aspect of the book is that the fundamental flaw in Wang's character was that he was a control freak and determined to allow no one except his son Fred to manage the company . This, and the fact essentially the company became a one product enterprise, resulted in its rapid failure once the need for the product ( a stand alone word processor ) evaporated with the advent of the PC
John F. Kennedy
The best practice
Americans have always thought their healthcare system was the best in the world. But starting in the late 1990s, shocking reports emerged that showed this was far from the truth. Treatment-related deaths or complications were found to be the fifth leading cause of death for Americans, and hundreds of thousands of patients were being harmed by botched medical procedures. Spurred by the quality crisis, a group of visionary physicians led by Donald Berwick and Paul Batalden embarked on a study of industrial quality improvement techniques, daring to apply them to the practice of medicine despite resistance from the medical community. The Best Practice tells the story of this burgeoning movement, and of how the medical landscape is being radically transformed--for the better.
The son of John Devlin
Detective Jack Devlin is ordered to investigate corruption in the Boston police force and in the process pierces a family mystery, the suicide of his father, also a policeman, who was accused of corruption.
The Last Man
When a CIA black ops master with ties to disreputable figures in Afghanistan goes missing, Mitch Rapp is ordered to track down the missing man at all costs and finds himself enmeshed in a dangerous plot involving the interests of numerous countries.
Aida
Retells the story of Verdi's opera in which the love of the enslaved Ethiopian princess for an Egyptian general brings tragedy to all involved.