Bøker av Patrick Hughes

First Published in 1970, A Century of Weather Service provides a comprehensive history of the birth and growth of the National Weather Service from 1870 to 1970 in America. The book discusses important themes and closes with a chronology of the meteorological milestones of the American weather services from 1644 to 1970.

Raccoon Mike and Ralph Wolf met in grade school. Through their friendship, they learned that they each had a learning disability. Despite their challenges, they remained focused, completed trade school, and have become successful electricians.

Based on the author's early life, the book depicts family life in Lozells, a working-class district of Birmingham, now mostly demolished. The family's hardships and difficulties are described, as well as their happy times, during World War II and the post-war years.