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By BOB SCOTT
Rappahannock Ntwi Contributing Writer
James Reston Jr. has given his readers a memorable experience. He has created a literacy Time Machine with which we can transport ourselves to what he describes as “The precise moment when modern history is bom.”
The vehicle that returns us to the turbulent times of the Italian Renaissance is Reston’s newest biography entitled Galileo, A Life. Viewing Galileo’s life from the perspective of our high tech, space age culture impresses the reader with a real appreciation for the accuracy and completeness of the author’s research as well as taking one’s own imagination to new and higher dimensions.
If you could have been a witness to Galileo’s shock and awesome wonder when he looked through the first perfected telescope and saw “mountains and craters" on the face of the moon might you have said to him, “In a few hundred years you’ll see a dozen young Americans bouncing areund up there in space suits." I James Reston Jr. is the author of nine acclaimed books, two plays artd numerous articles for national print media. He fcill be speaking to Rappahannock audiences for Friday Night at the Library at 8 p.m. on March 10. He will discuss the research and writing of Galileo, A Life, the forthcoming PBS Special on Galileo and some of his other interesting literacy subjects.
James Reston Jr. was bom in New
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