The Works of James Reston, Jr. 1971 to 2021
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  • Nineteenth Hijacker
  • About James Reston
  • Books
    • Vietnam >
      • A Rift in the Earth
      • Sherman's March and Vietnam
      • The Amnesty of John David Henderson
    • Medieval History >
      • Luther's Fortress
      • Defenders of Faith
      • Dogs of God
      • Warriors of God
      • The Last Apocalypse
      • Galileo
    • Biography >
      • The Accidental Victim
      • The Conviction of Richard Nixon
      • Collision at Home Plate
      • Lone Star
      • Our Father Who Art in Hell
      • The Innocence of Joan Little
    • Novels >
      • The Nineteenth Hijacker
    • Autobiography >
      • The Impeachment Diary
      • Fragile Innocence
  • Plays
  • Articles
    • Amnesty
    • Civil Rights and the South
    • Richard Nixon
    • Jonestown
    • Sports
    • Theatre, History, and Literature
    • Space
    • Washington D.C.
    • Hillary
    • Dallas Assassination
    • Millennium
    • Crusade and Jihad
    • 9-11
    • Presidential Impeachment
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Galileo: A Life

Published in 1994 this book vividly depicts the brilliant scientist and dramatically portrays the turbulence and richness of the era in which he lived, a chronicle of Galileo's career focuses on his invention of the telescope, which forced a dangerous confrontation with the Inquisition.

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"Fresh, sinewy, and altogether admirable." --Los Angeles Times

"Reston paints a vivid yet sensitive portrait of Galileo: his effervescent friendships in the rich intellectual milieu of the Venetian Republic, the brew of excitement and egoistic paranoia that accompanied his astronomical discoveries with the telescope, the annoyances of a derelict brother and the lawsuit over his sister's dowry, the agony of the trip to Rome to face the Inquisition. It is a dramatic story, often told, but never as compellingly as this." --Owen Gingerich, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

​The book can be found on Amazon.

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