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.)
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.
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
Friday, August 16, 2024
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.
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.
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.
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.
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