Recommendations W.E.B. Du Bois SimonOctober 3, 20190 Nostalgic reprint from October 2009 I just finished reading “The Souls of Black Folk” by W.E.B. Du Bois. It...
Recommendations Book Read: The Opium War SimonSeptember 25, 20190 The Opium War By Julia Lovell The first half of this book is an excellent telling of the details of the Opium War...
Recommendations Book Read: The Big Rock Candy Mountain SimonSeptember 18, 20190 The Big Rock Candy Mountain By Wallace Stegner Stegner's prose are beautiful. He paints word pictures that are so...
Politics Book Read: Enlightenment Now SimonSeptember 11, 20190 Enlightenment Now By Steven Pinker This is one of my favorite books from this summers reading. Pinker sees the flow...
Recommendations Book Read: Between Two Scorpions SimonAugust 26, 20190 Between Two Scorpions by Jim Geraghty I know Jim Geraghty as a columnist for National Review. It turns out that he is...
Recommendations Book Read: The Guns at Last Light SimonAugust 19, 20190 The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson I read this book to prepare for my walking tour of Normandy. And I was...
Recommendations Book Read: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist SimonAugust 12, 20190 Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist by Alexander Berkman It is rare that a literate man is sent to prison for a long time...
Recommendations Book Read: A Golfers Dream SimonAugust 5, 20190 A Golfers Dream by Larry Berle If you need your spirits lifted read this book. I am not a golfer even though I live...
Recommendations Book Read: The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee SimonJuly 29, 20190 The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer If you care about fairness and justice this is a disturbing book. It...
Recommendations Book Read: Arbitrary Stupid Goal SimonJuly 11, 20190 Arbitrary Stupid Goal by Tamara Shopsin We are going to Lyon for the Women's World Cup. One of the things that Lyon...