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Brzezinski's Second Chance
Being an author can be a very cushy job once you’ve got a good reputation and money for research assistants. Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Second Chance examines how three post-Cold War American P… more →
Pursuit of Truthiness
Brzezinski's Second Chance
feanor1600 wrote 9 months ago: Being an author can be a very cushy job once you’ve got a good reputation and money for resear … more →
The Bottomless Well
feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: This 2005 book by a physicist and a Manhattan Institute fellow puts forward some shocking claims on … more →
The Strange Death of American Liberalism
feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: The Strange Death of American Liberalism by H.W. Brands purports to explain why LBJ-style liberalism … more →
The World Though Einstein-Colored Glasses
feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: Just read Albert Einstein’s The World As I See It. The book, published in German in 1933 and i … more →
Guns of August, Pity of War
feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been delving into histories of the First World War. I recently finished two books by popu … more →
Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom
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feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: This has been, I think, the most popular book written about economics in the 20th century. Having re … more →
Arthur Conan Doyle- Historian
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feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: The man remembered for Sherlock Holmes was not only a novelist, but a contemporary historian as well … more →
The Making of an Economist
feanor1600 wrote 1 year ago: Recently finished The Making of an Economist, Redux by David Colander. The book summarizes surveys … more →
Amusing Ourselves to Death
feanor1600 wrote 2 years ago: Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman This book b … more →
