Where The Falcon Flies by Adam Shoalts

This book’s full title is Where the Falcon Flies; My 3.400 Kilometer Odessey from my Doorstep to the Artic. This is a great read. Adam Shoalts certainly knows how to tell stories. He was just at my Probus Club of East York as our monthly speaker talking about this book and his others. He is also a very good speaker.

One of the things that stood out for me what the people he met along the way. All these strangers were very kind to him. They provided him with food and other things he needed, like a place to put up his tent. All seems to be happy to help him especially when they realized what he was doing – travelling from him home to the high Artic.

Lor Miller at Wilderness Canoe Association does a great review of this book. There are a number of short reviews at The Story Graph. There is even a negative review which very much surprised me. Allen Lane writes are review for CBC Books. There is also an interesting review of this book at The Padding Magazine.

Adam Shoalts is interviewed on Global News. This short around 5 minutes. The video by The Happy Camper starts with great scenes from Adam Shoalts trip. Adam Shoalts is interviewed on TV Niagara. This is a short interview around 8 minutes.

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Four Queens by Nancy Goldstone

This book’s full title is Four Queens, The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. I loved this book. It is the way history should be written. This book covers the lives of these sisters, but also the lives of their husbands. These women had a lot of influence and we seldom hear about women having influence in the Middle Ages. However, most history is written by men about men, but this is slowly changing. This book reads more like historical fiction, but it is all true.

Hmalagisi on Adventures of a Tudor Nerd write a good review outlining the story in this book. The blog The Creative Historian gives another fine review of this book. Megan Marshall at The New York Times write a rather critical review of this book. You can sometimes learn more from critical reviews than flattering ones.

There are few videos featuring Nancy Goldstone. This video covers a number of books by Nancy Goldstone. The part on Four Queens starts are 6:39 in the video. See the video by Hudson Library and History.

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World on the Brink by Dmitri Alperovitch

This book’s full title is World on the Brink: How America Can beat China in the Race for the 21st Century. The author is Dmitri Alperovitch with Garrett M. Graff. I found this a very interesting and well written book. Dmitri Alperovitch explains the history and current tensions between China and the US. He talks about the challenges the US faces because of the rise of China.

If you want to understand the problems with China and what the US could possibly do about their relationship with China, this is the book to read.

There is a good review at the Cipher Brief. There is a review of this book on Reason Magazine. There is a site just for this book. There is also a good review at NYJournalofBooks.

The author is interviewed on Mauldin Economics by Ed D’Agostino. The author speaks at Cornell . Dmitri Alperovitch talks to Jason Kikta on Automox about cybersecurity.

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The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

This book’s full title is The Bomber Mafia, a Dream, A temptation and the Longest Night of the Second World War. I always like books by Malcolm Gladwell. It writes very readable books. I do like his style of writing. I do not generally read war books, although a read a lot of history. I picked this up mainly because it was written by Malcolm Gladwell. I have read other books by him and they were all very readable.

There is a review of this book on Wikipedia. It says that the book got mixed reviews on release. I am not surprised. It is light reading of a complex subject. There is a review and some background on a site called Pushkin. It is offering the book as an audiobook. This review by Brian Castner on The Wrath-Bearing Tree is long and critical. With critical reviews, sometimes to learn more than in reading the book you are covering.

Malcolm Gladwell is interviewed on How to Academy. This is part 1. Part 2 is here for the How to Academy interview. Morning Joes interviews Malcolm Gladwell . This is a shorter interview of 11 minutes. Malcolm Gladwell is interviews by Amanpour and Company . This is also short at around 18 minutes.

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Cities That Shaped the Ancient World by John Julius Norwich

This book’s title is Cities That Shaped the Ancient World and is edited by John Julius Norwich. This book covers in every part of the world from the near east to the Americas. The author uses descriptions of these cities from various people. It was interesting read, but did nothing to advance my understanding of history.

I read the paperback edition of this book. The review by Peter Gordon is exactly right. The book is a collection of brief city-by-city essays that are very short. As I had said above, it was interesting but did nothing to advance my understand of history.

There is a short review of this book on Good Reads. There is a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books by Peter Gordon. Most of the reviews are the same as they seem all to be coming from bookshops.

Norwich talks on YouTube about Venice. There are no videos on this book.

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The Mending by Lynne Golding

This book’s full title is The Mending, Beneath the Alers Series. Lynne Golding has a site here. Her twitter account is here with a twitter name of @lynne_golding.

I very much enjoyed this book. You can learn about some Canadian History while reading about Jessie Stephens and her life in Brampton. The book is part fiction and part stories from the author’s Great Aunt Jessie. What I enjoyed most in reading this book was about Jessie attending Victoria College.

Lynne Golding talks about this book at Open Book. There are some nice reviews on Amazon . Scroll to the end of bottom of the page. Canadian Federation of University Women in had Lynne Golding as a speaker at a Aurora-Newmarket meeting. There is an interview with Lynn Golding by Steve Paikin via TVO today.

Lynne Golding speaks about this series on her site. Her Facebook page is here. She has a number of videos on her site.

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Possess the Air by Taras Grescoe

This book’s full title is Possess the Air: Live, Heroism and the Battle for the Soul of Mussolini’s Rome. This was a wonderful read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is history, but told in a different way than usual for people writing history.

Megan Moore Burns at Quill & Quire does a nice review of this book. There is another good review by Joe Taylor at Forward. And the best review I write was by Ian McGillis at Montreal Review of Books.

There is one interview with the author by Kath Sterns on Facebook. (The review, interestingly, is on Facebook and there are odd little videos included below the interview.)

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Everything Under the Heavens by Howard French

This book’s full title is Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China’s Push for Global Power. I found this a very interesting book and fits in with other histories I have read about China. He thinks that understanding China’s history will help us understand China’s current ambition. The current world order came about when China was at a weak point. China was for a very long time the dominant power in Asia. China now wants to be the or at lease one of the dominant powers currently.

From Edoardo Agamennone, a quote “Howard French thus portrays China as an ultra-Machiavellian power seeking to regain its rightful place in the current world order, far from being a peaceful and harmless defender of underdeveloped and developing countries alike.”

Jonathan Chatwin does a good review of this book on Asian Review of Books. Robert W. Foster does another good review of this book on Association for Asian Studies. Also, there is Edoardo Agamennone on Torino World Affairs Institute with an insightful view of this book.

Howard French talks at Politics and Prose Bookstore. He also speaks at the National Committee on US-China Relations.

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Debt by David Graeber

This book’s full title is Debt: The first 5,000 years. I think that David Graeber has a unique way of viewing the world. Parts of the book was quite interesting. However, I can also see where Noah Smith is coming from with his rather big review of this book. It was very long and rambling, and confusing book. I also failed to find out what exactly he was trying to say. See the link to that review below.

David Graeber is quite left wing in his attitude to life in general. Although I think that he often says interesting things. I must admit I do find anthropology interesting. There is a much more positive review of this book by Robert McGrath. See the link to this review below.

My last two reviews are one that is in a positive light and one that is in a rather negative light. See the links to reviews by Jeffery Atik and Jeff Hummel below.

There is a short overview of this book at UK Press . Noah Smith via Blogspot gives a great review of this book. Robert McGrath on Word Press gives a positive review. Jeffery Atik on LA Review of Books. This last review from Jeff Hummel on Econlib is also critical.

IdeasInHat on YouTube talks about the first 4 chapters of this book. Sonali Kolhatkar on YouTube interviews David Graeber about this book. David Graeber talks at Google. This is long, but interesting. Lecture ends at 1 hour and questions start. The lecture is rather rambling, but David always says interesting things, so it is worthwhile listening to.

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The End of Everything by Victor Davis Hanson

This book’s full title is The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. This is a fascinating book talking about 3 civilizations coming to an end. The civilizations he talks about are Thebes (in Greece), Carthage (north Africa), Constantinople (in what is now Turkey) and Tenochtitlan (Aztecs in Mexico). He thinks we should learn from the past. Of course, what we learn from history is that we do not learn from history.

There is a review at Writers Reps that outlines the book. There is an interesting review and quote by Maurine Proctor on Later Day Saint site. There is a short review on Kirkus Reviews. There is a good review on The New Criterion.

There is an interview by at Hoover Institution of the author by Peter Robinson. Megyn Kelly interviews Victor Davis Hanson on YouTube. This is a short interview of just over 8 minutes. It ends with advert to buy gold? I would not go there. There is an interview on OAN. This is an interview by John Anderson. They start talking about US politics. He starts talking about talking about his book about 1 hour in.

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Persians by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

This book’s full title is Persians: The Age of the Great Kings. We in the western world generally do not have a positive attitude towards the Persians and this is mainly due to the Greek historians and the Roman Empire. The Greeks and the Roman Empire and the Persian Empire were enemies and fought a number of battles. I love reading history. I found this book interesting and it adds to my knowledge of world history.

I found a great review of this book at Bryn Mawr Classical review. Review is by Farnoosh Shamsianat of Leipzig University. There is a short review at Publishers Weekly. Ali Ansari on Engelsberg Ideas writes an interesting and rather negative review of this book.

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones speaks at York University Questions start around 46 minutes in. This is a short video on YouTube of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones talking about Cyrus the Great. This next video is an interview by Erica on YouTube of the author. She is a young woman interviewing the author and it is quite interesting.

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The Dragons and the Snakes by David Kilcullen

This book’s full title is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West. I found this a fascinating book. I do not usually read such books because it is about war rather than straight history. But this is a well-written and as I said fascinating book about how war techniques change over time.

The dragons in this book are Russian, China, Iran, and North Koreas. The snakes are terrorist groups, like the Taliban, Al Qaida, ISIS etc. He talks how the dragons and snakes are changing how they fight based on how America fights. He talks about how the fighting is evolving, changing, and adapting.

There are some good reviews on Amazon. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the reviews. I found Will Selber’s review of this book on The Strategy Bridge interesting. He talks about what he likes and dislikes of this book. It is always interesting to read a critique of a book and this is what this review is. This probably the best review. Micholas Underwood on Small Wars Journal gives a rather positive review of this book

Clifford May moderator for a Foundation for Defense of Democracies. David Kilcullen starts discussion 3 minutes in. The site The Reading Stack talk about this book and review starts around 3:45 minutes in. David Kilcullen is interviews on United States Studies Centre in July 2020. This is just a discussion with David Kilcullen rather than a discussion on this book.

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The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow

This book’s full title is The Dawn of Everything: A new History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow. This is an absolute terrific book. Graeber looks at the world very differently. You cannot help but learn from him.

An interesting story in this book is about the first contact Europeans had with people of the Americas. The people of Americas ran their societies differently than the Europeans. The authors talk about how discussions with people of the Americas, especially around the great lakes, affected and maybe prompted the European Enlightenment age. An interesting person they talk about is Kandiaronk, a Huron-Wendat chief.

This is an absolutely fascinating book to read, no matter what political persuasion you have. I have always found anthropology and archology interesting and often fascinating. I sure people into sociology will also love this book. I took a course once in sociology in U of T. I found it boring and depressing. It was all about how horrible things are and what was wrong with the world. Yes, our society is not perfect and there are better ways of doing somethings, but it seems to me that socialism leads to dictatorships. Example currently is Venezuela. I guess that is politically wrong and I may have to remove this sentence

David Priestland on the Guardian writes an interest review of this book. There is an interesting review of this book by Rob Henderson on Substack.

Four Minute Books coving this book is interesting but a lot of advertising for such a short review. See review here. David Wengrow speaks at British Library. See Four Minute Books on YouTube and it is an interesting summary. Democracy now interviews David Wengrow on YouTube.

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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 .

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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.

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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. . .

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