Negative Space: book
- The Blog of War
- Great collection of Iraq and Afghanistan-related milblog posts. The Blog of War covers every war from the perspective of the individuals who take part: friends, spouses, and the soldiers themselves.
- Boss
- From 1955 to 1976, Richard J. Daley was the mayor of Chicago and the undisputed boss of Chicago politics. In 1971, reporter Mike Royko published a book about Daley’s rise to power and his firm grip on it. Boss is a fascinating story of the Chicago machine that still in some form exists today.
- Fit to Print: A.M. Rosenthal and His Times
- Abe Rosenthal ran the New York Times from the late sixties to the mid eighties. He made lots of enemies, took sides in New York’s elections, and treated people as if only he were real. But he also turned the Times into a more profitable entity that reported news instead of press releases and stories instead of raw data.
- Losing America
- If someone were to tell you they were reading a book subtitled “Confronting a reckless and arrogant presidency” you’d probably think it was written by a right-winger, rather than a short-sighted beltway insider who can’t see out of the beltway box to save his own reputation.
- The Prince
- Machiavelli’s “The Prince” is an odd bit of ephemera from the sixteenth century. It purports to teach a newly-made prince how to maintain his principality.
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- Dandelion Wine (paperback)
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The summer of 1928, and the magical events in the life of 12-year-old Douglas Spaulding. (Ray Bradbury)
- The Fountainhead (paperback)
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I only read this book a few years ago; what amazed me most after all the bad press Rand gets is how well she writes her characters. In the computer industry, at least, there are people like her architects—and some of our politicians certainly seem to be just like the non-architects. (Ayn Rand)
- The October Country (paperback)
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A collection of strange and supernatural autumns from Ray Bradbury. (Ray Bradbury)
- We Have Always Lived in the Castle (paperback)
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A mysterious tale, with obvious truths hiding poorly behind every page, much as Constance does; beautifully written with lovingly neurotic characters, it’s a great book. (Shirley Jackson)
