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Craig’s 2025 Year in Books
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| Excellent Cold War espionage novel. Transcends the genre by a lot. Not to be read casually, as I did when it first came out. Hard to keep the characters straight, which is pretty much embedded in the plot. | |
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| A distinguished historian of the post-WWII era, Mccoy sets himself a set of difficult tasks in this sweeping history. On one level, it's an overview of the Cold War in the manner of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War. On another, it's a study of t ...more | |
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| A distinguished historian of the post-WWII era, Mccoy sets himself a set of difficult tasks in this sweeping history. On one level, it's an overview of the Cold War in the manner of Odd Arne Westad's The Global Cold War. On another, it's a study of t ...more | |
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On re-reading for the zillionth time, 2026. As good as ever. This time, I was particularly fascinated by Prospero's ambiguities: grouchy, power-obsessed, smart, ultimately merciful. Quick note before the review: As I near retirement, I've been reducin ...more |
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| 85% of an elegant solution to the impossible problem of writing a history of Native Americans. The impossibility is grounded in two problems. First, the historical sweep, from times before extensive European contact, and second, the reality that each ...more | |
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| Basically outtakes from Jung's essential kind-0f-memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The book had a tortured history of interviews, editing, problems with the publisher overly concerned with crafting it to the desires of an imagined American audie ...more | |
“....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God.”
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
― Higher Ground: Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Curtis Mayfield, and the Rise and Fall of American Soul
“Rarely bothering to temper his language, Wallace made the racial subtexts of issues like busing and promiscuity clear. His strong showings in the Wisconsin and Michigan primaries demonstrated unambiguously that race was not simply a Southern issue. Any candidate capable of tapping the fears of white working-class males, especially those living in districts bordered by black ghettos, had an excellent chance of undercutting the traditional Democratic coalition.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race And The Soul Of America
“It's been forty years since Sam Cooke promised that a change was gonna come. Change came and change is coming still. Our history's still being lived. What it will be is up to us. Holler if ya hear me. p. 361.”
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
― A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| The History Book ...: R&B | 242 | 543 | Nov 14, 2023 12:54AM | |
| Around the World ...: Switzerland | 24 | 782 | Mar 01, 2025 11:35AM |
