If there’s one book that I find myself recommending more than most lately, it’s Thomas Ricks’ survey and analysis of US generals from World War II to the present. With an eye to examining why history has been so kind to the men who led the US Army during that war, but less so to […]
Archives for September 2015
Book Review | The Generals: American Military Command from World War II to Today by Thomas E. Ricks
2015-09-07 · by ·
Book Review | American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History by Charles Murray
2015-09-06 · by ·
American Exceptionalism: An Experiment in History weighs in at a little under fifty, four-by-six pages (not including notes and citations). It’s pretty light weight, especially as it goes for books on politics or history. And yet, Charles Murray does not disappoint. He packs in a lot of interesting ideas in a short amount of time. […]
Brief Book Review | Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
2015-09-02 · by ·
Tonight is the Manly Book Club, a neighborhood book club I started for an excuse to hangout and talk ideas with the guys in my neck of the woods. We’re talking about Jules Verne’s Journey to the Center of the Earth. While it’s not the most interesting book we’ve read, reading it has certainly been an […]
