Charles Smith’s Reviews > The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914 > Status Update

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.

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.

Now I am looking forward to reading that Panama Canal book.

Gilded Cage for the Age.

The omissions talked about in the forward have me fortunate I read The Curious Case of Rudolph Diesel.