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‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly Missed

‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly Missed

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  1 Comments  •  4 years ago

In 1985, when Roosevelt Montás first arrived in New York, he was an 11-year-old Dominican “with a head full of lice and a belly full of tropical parasites.” By his own account, he didn’t seem...
‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist

‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  3 Comments  •  4 years ago

Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known...
The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)

The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)

By: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  11 Comments  •  4 years ago

The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book Rigged:"Mueller is a great selection. Impeccable credentials. Should be widely accepted," Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican head...
The history is already being written (Part I)

The history is already being written (Part I)

By: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  94 Comments  •  4 years ago

The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged." I regard this as the first definitive history of the Russia Collusion hoaxFrom Chapter 2: Taking on the Establishment.When Hillary...
‘Oscar Wilde’ Review: Portrait of the Artist in Full

‘Oscar Wilde’ Review: Portrait of the Artist in Full

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  4 Comments  •  4 years ago

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits...
‘The 9.9 Percent’ Review: The Tarnished Silver Spoon

‘The 9.9 Percent’ Review: The Tarnished Silver Spoon

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  1 Comments  •  4 years ago

You wouldn’t know it from the bizarre overconfidence of today’s Democratic Party, but the ideas, policies and attitudes of postwar American liberalism have mostly failed. Liberalism’s one...
Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter

Book Review: ‘Woke Racism’ by John McWhorter

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  7 Comments  •  4 years ago

‘This book frankly leapt out of me,” writes John McWhorter, “during the summer of 2020.” The country was convulsed not just with Covid-19, but with protests in response to the killing of an...
‘Capote’s Women’ Review: Betrayal of the Swans

‘Capote’s Women’ Review: Betrayal of the Swans

Via: Vic Eldred  •  Books  •  1 Comments  •  4 years ago

In November 1975, Truman Capote published “La Côte Basque, 1965,” a chapter from a novel he was writing called “Answered Prayers.” The book, acquired by Random House nine years earlier, was to be...
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