The Back Channel: Book Review
The Back Channel: A Memoir of American Diplomacy and the Case for Its Renewal , 2019, William J. Burns. Burns spent 33 years in the State...
The Serviceberry: Book Review
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World , Robin Kimmerer, 2023. This book is a follow up to Braiding Sweetgrass...
Braiding Sweetgrass: Book Review
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants , Robin Kimmerer, 2013. Kimmerer is a...
Democracy Awakening: Book Review
Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America , Heather Cox Richardson, 2024. Democracies can die because of voting, but why?...
The Light Eaters: Book Review
The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth , Zoe Schlanger, 2024. Schlanger...
Technology: Book Review
Technology: A World History , Daniel Headrick, 2009, a quick review of tech development, with world-wide coverage. Editor’s Preface....
Beyond the Big Lie: Book Review
Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans do it More, and How it Could Burn Down Our Democracy , Bill Adair,...
War: Book Review
War , Bob Woodward, 2024. The book mainly covers the period since 2020 when Biden became president and all the issues and responses by...
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Book Review
Revenge of the Tipping Point [RTP]: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering , Malcolm Gladwell, 2024: destined to...
Nexus: Book Review
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI , Yuval Harari, 2024. The primary focus is on artificial...
Autocracy, Inc.: Book Review
Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World , Anne Applebaum, 2024. I recently finished reading 1984 . Now the question is...
The Situation Room: Book Review
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis, George Stephanopoulos, 2024. As a special advisor and spokesman for Bill...
1984: Book Review
1984, George Orwell (Eric Blair) was a British novelist, journalist, and poet, focusing on totalitarianism. World War II gave the world...
Stowaway; Book Review
Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, Joe Shute, 2024. It’s all about rats! It came out in mid-2024 and for some reason I just...
New Cold Wars: Book Review
New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russian Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West, David Sanger, 2024. After the collapse of the...