Thursday, May 6, 2021

The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War

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 Like other books I've read and enjoyed by Tim Butcher, The Trigger: Hunting the Assassin Who Brought the World to War includes a long a...
Thursday, March 18, 2021

Good Morning, Midnight

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I have said before that I would read a treatise about sheep farming if it were beautifully written, and so it is with  Lily Brooks-Dalton...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit

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Tim Butcher's Blood River is some of the best travel writing I've read recently, and my review of it caught his eye on Good Reads, ...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Everybody Was So Young - Gerald and Sara Murphy: A Lost Generation Love Story

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 It doesn't help, I'm sure, that I read this on the heels of Jason Fagone's The Woman Who Smashed Codes , one of the best biogra...
Sunday, February 7, 2021

The Woman Who Smashed Codes: A True Story of Love, Spies, and the Unlikely Heroine Who Outwitted America's Enemies

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Elizebeth Friedman wrote the book, literally, on codebreaking in this country. She established the agency that was the forerunner to the NSA...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

In the Dragon's Shadow: Southeast Asia in the Chinese Century

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Sebastian Strangio's In the Dragon's Shadow is, essentially, a look at the role China has played historically and currently in the ...
Thursday, January 21, 2021

American Notes for General Circulation

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So here's my beef with Dickens: he can be amusing, but I'm far too impatient for the payoff. I struggled mightily through the firs...