Category Archives: Book Reports

What I’ve Been Reading

Posted on January 2, 2012 by

What have you been reading lately? During the holiday break I re-read Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West, one of the greatest, but relatively little known, American novels. In contrast with this, Huck Finn is … Continue reading →

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Washington Rules: The Advent of Semiwar

Posted on January 1, 2011 by

This is the first in a chapter-by-chapter review of Andrew J. Bacevich’s, Washington Rules: America’s Path to Permanent War. For my money, this is the most important book I’ve read since Crenson and Ginsberg’s Presidential Power: Unchecked and Unbalanced. Bacevisc … Continue reading →

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