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.

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.

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.

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.