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Charles Smith is 38% done with The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Measure, survey and contract out twice, trice, four times if necessary and cut checks ONCE!
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The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 23% done with The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)
Only the problem as long as they gaslight you.
Mar 04, 2026 03:23PM Add a comment
The Fire Next Time (Vintage International)

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 67% done with A Guardian and a Thief
“Watch the world argue, argue with itself, who is gonna teach me? PEACE AND HAPPINESS?!” -INXS The Swing, Dancing on the Jetty
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A Guardian and a Thief

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 20% done with The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Jungle Warfare, but without respecting the local climate.
Feb 28, 2026 09:20PM Add a comment
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 48% done with On the Head of a Pin: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion
All these worlds are yours EXCEPT for Europa and IO… Attempt NO landings there.
Feb 27, 2026 01:28PM Add a comment
On the Head of a Pin: A Novel from Crosstown to Oblivion

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 2% done with The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914
Surveys on land to optimize navigation across the seas.
Feb 26, 2026 12:13AM Add a comment
The Path Between the Seas: The Creation of the Panama Canal, 1870-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 75% done with The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Between Oscar Wilde and Richard Strauss one would wonder [cogitate] how we do not have Auteur Provocateur as a classification. Picasso and Dali had great incitement and Freud and Jung enumerated the receipts.
Feb 23, 2026 10:07PM Add a comment
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 62% done with The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
That chapter on The Hague says so much about the importance of Rudolph Diesel; Standard Oil; Steel and The whole international poker game where EVERYONE is cheating.
Feb 22, 2026 09:18PM Add a comment
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 49% done with The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Now I am looking forward to reading that Panama Canal book.
Feb 21, 2026 09:03PM Add a comment
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 2% done with The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
The omissions talked about in the forward have me fortunate I read The Curious Case of Rudolph Diesel.
Feb 17, 2026 10:23PM Add a comment
The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 46% done with The Wilderness
All in the family
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The Wilderness

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 18% done with The Wilderness
Still awaiting the Harriet Tubman $20US
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The Wilderness

Charles Smith
Charles Smith is 90% done with East of Eden
Those glorious Socialist Values are there right on time and we should all be collectively THANKFUL.
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East of Eden

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