A great read...
Posted on 06/13/2018 11:56:53 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Years ago, I'd post a quarterly thread asking Freepers what they were reading now. I made mention of the fact that I thought Freepers had to have been some of the more well-read people on the 'Net. I have decided to resume that post.
What are you reading? It can be a best seller, a trashy pulp novel, a biography - heck even a technical journal. Just don't answer the post by saying "I'm Reading This Thread". It lost its originality a really long long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading a classic biography from 1970. It's called "Huey Long" by T Harry Williams. It's a large and very well-documented bio about one of the more controversial figures in American politics. The author did extensive research and it shows in the book. I'd highly recommend it - and I'm only about 1/4 of the way thru it.
Well, what are you reading now?
The Gospel of Mark
Richland Crossing, A Portrait of Texas Pioneers by Walter Clay Dixon.
Richland Crossing is where the old Springfield stagecoach trail crossed Richland creek, near its confluence with Pin Oak creek, going from Mexia to Corsicana. The book details the Andersons, Dixons, Loves and Hardins, including John Wesley Hardin, whose family lived on Pisgah Ridge. John Wesley Hardin even taught at the local Nash school for a semester until killing got into his blood.
I’m reading a history of the battle at Hastings in 1066.
The author writes that the English didn’t really have any archers at this battle.
Interesting that they did at Agincourt.
I guess they did an After Action Review.
I've had a copy of "Huey Long" on the bookshelf for a long time, but never gotten to it. Maybe I'll make that my long-book-of-the-year for 2019.
Have on order Nick Foles's book, "Believe It."
I'm looking forward to Gregg Jarrett's "The Russia Hoax." I believe it will be released toward end of July.
The First Tycoon The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T.J. Stiles
Several weeks ago, I finished reading Lawrence O'Donnell's Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics (New York: Penguin, 2017), a tendentious, seriously flawed and sloppily researched view of the 1968 election from the left.
Just a few days ago, I finished the audiobook version of Mark Kurlansky's 1968: The Year That Rocked the World (New York: Random House, 2003), which takes a global perspective of 1968 and is better-researched but is still biased to the left.
Another book that I recently read is The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose from Defeat to Create the New Majority (New York: Crown, 2014) in which Patrick J. Buchanan, a prominent conservative in Richard Nixon's inner circle (and who gets a lot of attention here on FR), takes the reader into the inner workings of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign. Next week, I will be leading a book club discussion of this volume.
Currently, I am reading Jeffrey St. John's Countdown to Chaos: Chicago, August 1968: Turning Point in American Politics(Los Angeles: Nash, 1969), a look at the Democratic National Convention from the point of view of a conservative radio commentator. Other books on this subject that I intend to read in the near future are Winning's a Lot More Fun by Stephen C. Shadegg (New York: Macmillan, 1969), an early look at Nixon's quest for the presidency, and The News Twisters by Edith Ephron (sine loco: Manor, 1971), a rigorous analysis of news media bias during the 1968 presidential campaign.
The Ballad of the Sad Café.
Carson McCullers. 1953.
“Valley of the Dolls”——Jacqueline Susann. :-)
(I HAD to lighten up this reading list a bit.)
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Left of Bang and 12 Rules for Life
“A History of the Scottish Enlightenment” be Alexander Broadie.
I am reading a thread titled “What Are You Reading Now?”
bfl
Judging from what has been posted on this thread, your observation is correct.
I’ve always read a lot of books at one time. It sounds sort of stupid, but I’ve done it for the last forty years most probably. I leave them in every room and when I am in that room, that is the book I read.
A shortened list:
After Thermopylae, Paul Cartledge
Sulla the Fortunate, Baker
The Storm before the The Storm; The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic, Duncan
Christianity and the Crisis of Cultures, Ratzinger
The Russian Revolution, Richard Pipes
With the Old Breed E. B. Sledge
God’s Wolf {Raynald de Chatillon}, Jeffery Lee
Texas Rising, Stephen L. Moore.
Empire and Nation, Forrest McDonald
The Second World Wars, VDH
And another dozen or so others.
Getting ready to order Larry’s new Reagan Biography due out the week of the fourth of July — Go LS
Uncharted (Arcane America Book 1)
by Kevin J. Anderson and Sarah A. Hoyt
I read that when I was a sophomore in high school. Then as now, my pleasure reading was mostly nonfiction.
My Oncology report and my will.
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