An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern America by Gary S. Cross
I can feel like an alien in my own land sometimes. This is particularly true about shopping or watching TV because these mass activities feel so generic and empty. They so leave me cold that when I am among large group of people (back in…
All the Kremlin’s Men: Inside the Court of Vladimir Putin by Mikhail Zygar
Shortly after Trump’s election I decided that Putin was the best template for what we face in America. And this book, not quite a bio but a portrait of the man seen through the lens of his cronies seemed perfect. Sadly I found the book…
2034: A Novel of the Next World War by Elliot Ackerman
This was a selection by the only other member of my unOprah book club. It is a futuristic thriller answering the speculative question; what if the US and China got into a hot war within the next decade or so? I won’t spoil the book…
1066: The Hidden History in the Bayeux Tapestry by Andrew Bridgeford
Am I the only person who had never heard of the Bayeux Tapestry? I knew about 1066 but not about the great work of art that was produced shortly after that historic conquest. The book is a great window onto history by chronicling the miraculous…
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