Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book. Show all posts
Monday, February 27, 2023

Myrh America II

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 Akhil Reed Amar writes in Myth America about the founding fathers.  He emphasizes Washington's importance to the Constitutional Conven...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Myth America

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 Started reading this collection of essays, subtitled: "Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies About Our Past"  David Bel...
Tuesday, February 21, 2023

HIve Mind and the Mathew Effect

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 Reading Hive Mind by Garret Jones. Finding it good through the first chapters, until he got to the "Ingredients for Good Politics...
Friday, November 25, 2022

Passing of an Era--1980?

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 Currently reading Sen. Leahy's memoir . He entered the Senate in 1974 and was barely re-elected in 1980. It's an easy read, anecdot...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

States Rights and Bureaucracy

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 Reading Dr. Deborah Brix 's " Silent Invasion ", her memoir of her work in the pandemic. It's basically chronological, an...
Tuesday, September 20, 2022

Watch Out for Biplanes

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 They killed the last two American troops who were attacked from the air (towards the end of the Korean war.) That factoid from David Kilcul...
Thursday, May 26, 2022

WEIRD

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  Not the best photo, but this is Joseph Henrich's flowchart summarizing his 450 pp book , starting with Christianity competing with oth...
Monday, April 25, 2022

Essence of Decision-- II Then and Now

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[I belatedly checked and saw I'd already posted on this book, so I'm changing the titles of the two posts so they make a series. ]Pa...
Monday, December 13, 2021

Master of the Game

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 Reading Martin Indyk's " Master of the Game: Henry Kissinger: the Art of Middle East Diplomacy.  Just got through the Yom Yippur ...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

The Extended Mind

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  The Extended Mind is an ambitious book, one which tries to link together a lot of science and social science research into many subjects....
Monday, September 27, 2021

Landslide by Michael Wolff

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  Wolff's book  gets some 1-star reviews on Amazon, partly for bad writing and for finding Trump to be innocent of bad designs. Needless...
Monday, September 06, 2021

The Afghan Learning Curve

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 Carter Malkasian's " The American War in Afghanistan " has gotten some good reviews and a lot of attention, since its publica...
Thursday, August 19, 2021

Champlain's Dream

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 Reading David Hackett Fischers "Champlain's Dream "-- Some surprises:  Mohawk Indians wore armor to their first battle with C...
Thursday, August 12, 2021

Equality and Inequity in WWII--the Bomber War

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 Interesting--in WWII the RAF bomber crews were self-selected with no divisions of rank or class--they stuck the men who had finished traini...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

A Different Perspective--Rebanks

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 James Rebanks is a skilled writer whose book I enjoyed.  He's got a new book for sale, already released in the UK and now in the US...
Sunday, July 18, 2021

The Premonition I

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 About a third of the way into Michael Lewis's "The Premonition" , which so far describes the development of the pandemic plan...
Saturday, June 26, 2021

Norton's 1774: the Long Year of Revolution

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 Mary Beth Norton published this book in 2020,  Reading it in the light of the 1619 Project and our current partisanship makes it particul...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Textiles and Food--a Similar Evolution?

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 Virginia Postrel has a new book  on the history of textiles. I gave it to my wife but haven't yet read it myself.  Based on online int...
Monday, May 31, 2021

Bolton and Trump

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 Reading "The Room Where It Happened " by John Bolton. It's Trump porn, appealing to my liberal distrust of Trump and his admi...
Sunday, May 30, 2021

More Freedom to Choose

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 Rachel Laudan has a recent post   on the variety of food stores within a 6 mile radius of her Cincinnati home. I could do a similar post ab...