Tag Archives: american history

Book Review: The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright

Posted on April 25, 2017 by Tietsu

In an interview, Wright mentioned that he was using three tome-filled bookcases in order to do research on the book that would eventually become The Looming Tower. Now, I’ve never written a non-fiction book, hell, by any reasonable standard I … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Tietsu

When a loved one dies there is always some(or one) among the grief stricken who are left with the task of writing an obituary. There are people at the paper, at the memorials, who can help, but the burden still … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century by Daniel Oppenheimer

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Tietsu

[Note: I read this book a year ago. Things have changed no small bit since then, but a review is a review and I’m posting it as is.] A great election-year book. An exploration of the journey of personal politics … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The President’s Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy

Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tietsu

  It’s impossible to review The President’s Club without look towards the last few weeks. In the same way that one can no more look at the first century of the Roman Empire without looking at Nero and Caligula. And … Continue reading →

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Dominance and Dominion

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Tietsu

And so the carnival rang and marched forever into the distance. A chorus of buckshot, flies buzzing over rotten flesh. A mountain of skulls ghostly voids proudly marking the trail of their crossing. Fed fat on blood and excess they sing, sing, singing … Continue reading →

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