I am currently reading When Everyone Knows the Everyone Knows… by Steven Pinker. Here is the description from the publisher: “From one of the world’s most celebrated intellectuals, a brilliantly insightful work that explains how we think about each other’s thoughts about each other’s thoughts, […]
I am currently enjoying Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography by Tom Arnold-Forster. Here is the description from the publisher, Princeton University Press: “Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) was among the most influential and wide-ranging political writers in modern America. As both a journalist and political theorist, he […]
I am currently reading Sontag, the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography by Benjamin Moser. The description from the publisher: “No writer is as emblematic of the American twentieth century as Susan Sontag. Mythologized and misunderstood, lauded and loathed, a girl from the suburbs who became a proud […]
I am currently enjoying Veblen: The Making of an Economist Who Unmade Economics by Charles Camic From the publishers description: “Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the […]
I am currently enjoying Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther and the Fight for the Western Mind by Michael Massing. Here is the summary from the publisher: “Erasmus of Rotterdam was the leading figure of the Northern Renaissance. At a time when Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael were […]
I enjoyed Fred Kaplan’s biography of Abraham Lincoln from the perspective as Lincoln the writer. He has created the same biography for Thomas Jefferson, His Masterly Pen: A Biography of Jefferson the Writer. From the publisher: “As he did for Abraham Lincoln and John Quincy […]
I’ve been waiting for this new novel from David James Duncan since I read his novel, The Brothers K, which was published nearly 30 years ago. It’s called Sun House, and it is hard to describe. Here is the publisher’s description of the book. “An […]
I am reading a very good history of one of the most important judges in our nation’s history. The book is called The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero, written by Peter S. Canellos. Here is the description from the […]
I am currently reading a well-written inside narrative account of how Alan Mulally turned around Ford when they were on the brink in the mid-2000s. I would highly recommend it for anyone interested in business, history and the cultural icon of the blue oval. American […]
I have had Robert Caro’s masterpiece on my shelf for quite some time, but I am slightly embarrassed to admit that I haven’t yet read it. Master of the Senate is the third book in the author’s multivolume biography of Lyndon Johnson. And at more than […]