Leadership by Henry Kissinger

This book’s full title is Leadership: Six Studies in World Strategy. This is a wonderful book and highly enjoyable to read. Kissinger talks about Konrad Adenauer, Charles de Gaulle, Richard Nixon, Anwar Sadat, Lee Kuan Yew, and Margaret Thatcher. I have a better view of Nixon because of this book.

Critical thinking is what we need rather than just believing in what you hear from our leaders and the press. I am sorry if anyone disagree with this, but I like to read all points of views and then decide for myself, what I will accept or not accept. That seems like an unpopular position are a lot of people.

Andrew Anthony on the Guardian writes an review of this book. He quotes Christopher Hitchens, an author I have never cared for. Abraham Sofaer on Moment Magazine does an interesting review of this book. Francis Sempa on New York Journal of Books likes Kissinger. Most of reviews do. See the review on Kirkus.

This is a short interview on Good Morning America. Henry Kissinger is interviewed about this book on MSNB. Henry Kissinger is interviewed by World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth. The interview starts around 4 minutes in.

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Liberalism and Its Discontents by Francis Fukuyama

This book’s full title is simply Liberalism and Its Discontents. It is an interesting read. I found the last chapter, called Principles for a Liberal Society, the most interesting. I have always had both male and female friends. It seems to me that people who cannot be friends with the opposite sex, cannot see others as fellow humans first.

He is saying that America conservatives must accept the shifting demographics and social change. They will find that the new immigrants are not so different from older immigrants. We are all immigrants in North America. The left only accepts certain diversity, which refers to race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. They need to accept other diversities as people are more than just members of a group.

Francis Fukuyama at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy talks about his book. He speaks for 30 minutes and then there is Q & A. For the Commonwealth Club there is a conversation between Tim Miller and Francis Fukuyama on YouTube . The introduction is over around 3.52 minutes and the conversation starts around 5.29 minutes in.

There is a long, interesting review by Seamus Flaherty on Quillette .

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Toronto Mayors by Mark Maloney

This book’s full title is Toronto Mayors: A History of the City’s Leaders. The shocking thing about this book is how readable it is. This I did not expect. Most book with biographies of individuals you keep as reference, because they are boring to read. This is the exception and therefore shocking.

I learned a lot from this book about Toronto, I city I have lived in most of my life. Compared to what you read on the cover of the book. I thought the author treated all the mayors rather sympathetically. Mark Maloney not only talks about the time the mayor was in office, but gives the whole life story of each mayor. I found the book a very easy read.

There is a review of this book on Donner. There is a list of Toronto Mayors and some details on Wikipedia but this is unrelated to this book. There is an article in the Toronto Star by Mark Maloney about the first women elected to the Toronto City Council. She was Constance Hamilton. There is an article in Now about why Cawthra Square Park should be renamed after Mayor Barbara Hall. There is only one review of this book at Good Reads and the reviewer did not particularly like the book.

Mark Maloney is interviewed on the War Room by Vince Nigro. An interesting name for a book review, but it was a good interview.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Slouching Towards Utopia by Brad DeLong

This book’s full title is Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century. It is an interesting read and I found the book quite fascinating. He has some interesting points of view and the book is well worth reading. I have read a lot, but Karl Polanyi is new person to me. He has interesting views and I believe a very good understanding of humans.

However, I do not understand why it should be thought that just because we have enough resources to satisfy everyone that we did not do that. That is our society should be a utopia. Humans throughout history has always been ruled by elites. When we got lots of resources we were still ruled by elites. We are today, still ruled by elites.

I also do not think that Utopia is good. Utopia will produce bored people. Bored people are dangerous people. They will find lots of stupid things to do. You can produce a satisfactory life or society for most people. I think that is possible.

There is a Lecture by Brad DeLong at Peterson Institute. His lecture starts almost 5 minutes into the video and stops around 26 minutes. This is an interview by Gillian Tett on YouTube by RSA. Bradford DeLong talks about this book at Fordham Gabelli School of Business. Lecture stops around 35 minutes and then he answers questions.

There is a short review at Kirkus. Joel Mokyr on Economic History Association has a great review of this book. Rohit Krishnan from Substack gives a review of this book. . .

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Values by Mark Carney

This book’s full title is Value(s): Building a Better World for All. I have always found Mark Carney interesting. He was the Governor of the Bank of Canada and then of the Bank of England. I found the book interesting. After I read a book, I like to look at book reviews and listen to videos with the author as a speaker or to videos with interviews of the author.

I believe in capitalism. I found interesting his views on capitalism in our current societies. He says that the world is moving to two capitalism types of Political, Authoritarian capitalism and Liberal, Meritocratic capitalism.

He defines Political or Authoritarian capitalism system with 3 characteristics of Efficient technocratic or merit-based bureaucracy; absence of the rule of law; and ultimate autonomy of the state. He defines liberal or meritocratic capitalism which means meritocratic in that there are no legal constraints on people earning an income or having a position in society. It is liberal through attempts to correct for initial differences in endowments through widespread education and income cases inheritance taxes. (This is page 132 in my book.)

Will Hutton reviews this book for the Guardian. There is a great review by Philip Cross in the National Review. Philip Cross is quite critical of the book. The review by Max Fawcett at Open Canada is very different. He liked the book.

Mark Carney is interviewed by Amanda Lang at the Rotman School in Toronto. This is a short around 5 minutes interview. Mark Carney is interviewed by Anna Gainey of Canada 2020. Michael Massoud interviews Mark Carney for CPA Canada. CPA Canada is Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

The Whisper on the Night Wind by Adam Shoalts

This book’s full title is The Whisper on the Night Wind, The True History of a Wilderness Legend. This book is a wonder adventure story. It is a very easy read. I learnt things about Labrador a place I had never visited and a place I had not read about before.

There is a great review by Kevin Hardcastle on Quill & Quire. There is another review on CBC Books. There is an interesting review by The Geeky Jock on WordPress.

Mike Balsom on YouTube interviews Adam Shoalts about this book. McNally Robinson Online Events on YouTube with Joanne Kelly and Adam Shoalts. Interview stars around 5.23. There is a podcast on Like a Bigfoot Podcase.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.

Land by Simon Winchester

This book’s full title is Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World. His telling of the first farmers etc. is like a telling a just so story. It is a story that has not been verified. This is my only negative comment. I found the book interesting reading. An example is how much land the cattle and sheep stations cover and how much land Gina Rinehart owns.

Aaron Retica writes an interesting review at the New York Times. Unfortunately, this review is now behind a pay wall. Carmen Margiotta on Earth.org gives us a review of this book. Also, I found a review on Kirkus Reviews. There is also a good review on Coot’s Reviews. I also read a review by Eric Liebetrau at the Boston Globe.

Simon Winchester is interviewed at the Kinokuniya Book Store about this book. The author is interviewed at the Gibson’s Bookstore. On C-Span Simon Winchester starts his talk 2 minutes in. Simon Winchester talks on TED.

An index of the books I have reviewed are on my website at Books. I have three blogs. The first talks only about specific stocks and is called Investment Talk . The second one contains information on mostly investing and is called Investing Economics Mostly. My last blog is for my book reviews and it is called Non-Fiction Mostly. Follow me on Twitter.