Tag Archives: history
Party Like It’s 1989
With today being the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I figure it’s a good time to talk about book recommendations about the Revolutions of 1989. In 2004, I read Timothy Garton Ash’s “The Magic Lantern: The … Continue reading
The People’s Historians
Last night, I attended the Keynote to Campaign to End the Death Penalty’s Annual Convention, and got a chance to see “The People’s Historians” — Howard Zinn and Dave Zirin. I haven’t read anything yet by either Zinn or Zirin … Continue reading
“The Other” By Ryszard Kapuscinski
I’m usually a bit wary of the “lecture repackaged as book” genre. For the most part, we readers are simply missing too much information, as these lectures were never intended to stand on their own (although I suppose that in … Continue reading
Reading On This Date: October 24…
One of the benefits of having a list of books I’ve read over the past decade, is that I can post the occasional “what was I reading on this date X years ago” entry. So looking at October 24th: 1999, … Continue reading
Ulysses S. Grant
Over the weekend I watched the 4 hour PBS documentary on Ulysses S. Grant “Warrior – President” which I’d wholeheartedly recommend to anyone interested in the US Civil War and its immediate aftermath (and frankly, its continued reverberations 100+ years … Continue reading
Zeitoun & Dave Eggers
I don’t want to jinx this, but I’ve really enjoyed the first 50 pages of ”Zeitoun“. Zeitoun is the story of a Syrian-American Hurricane Katrina survivor penned by Dave Eggers. Eggers has a gift for this style of biography, working … Continue reading
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