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He is the one who turns away. It’s an event, a small defiance of rule, so
“White was convinced that the “moron majority,” as he dubbed it, must be a recent development.”
― She Has Her Mother's Laugh: What Heredity Is, Is Not, and May Become
― She Has Her Mother's Laugh: What Heredity Is, Is Not, and May Become
“Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds,”
― The Zookeeper's Wife
― The Zookeeper's Wife
“The Thirty-nine Steps.”
― Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
― Last Hope Island: Britain, Occupied Europe, and the Brotherhood That Helped Turn the Tide of War
“As McChrystal took the lay of the land, “I felt like we were high-school students who had wandered into a Mafia-owned bar.”34”
― Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
― Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America's Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016
“McCarthy was an Irish Catholic small-town judge and a dipsomaniac with a vengeful streak and an exaggerated war record as a Marine tail gunner (he had not actually flown in combat). “Ignorant, crude, boastful, unaware of either intellectual or social refinements,”
― The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
― The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and the American Tragedy in Vietnam
Chris’s 2025 Year in Books
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