Books: Book(s) you are Currently Reading | Part 3

[Babe Ruth]

The cover provides a pretty good synopsis.. How War Made Them (the leaders of WW2) and How They Made War. Interesting history & hypotheses..

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

Dark and funny, halfway through.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Biography on Carl Linnaeus, his competitors & detractors.. and how he classified plants & animals.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

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If you get a chance, let me know what you thought. I have it on a library hold, but there are 30 people ahead me.. probably won't see it for 3-4 months.

Union spies and undercover agents fighting Confederate guerillas (specifically Mosby).
Okay so far..

 

[Babe Ruth]

Longview history and contemporary accounting of the Bronx, NYC.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Thorough accounting of faked bias crimes, etc. Staged arson, false police reports, faked threats,.. campus rallies and hysteria based on lies.. People voice-mailing themselves fake threats & anti-Black insults. Liars framing waiters & waitresses (by writing racial slurs on their receipts) to avoid paying for meals.. Hoaxes designed for sympathy, charity, to elude child support, etc.
The author also analyzes and documents why Left wing college campuses and media, instinctively accept the hoaxes and frauds uncritically due to their own biases and shallow sympathies.
I remember some of these high-profile hoaxes, but there are a lot of copycats catalogued in here also. I'm about 2/3rds thru this pathetic greatest hits.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Thorough bio on Van Gogh.
I've read the first 250 pages, which is mostly the story of young adult Van Gogh (ungratefully) living off the charity and patronage of his brother and parents.
But in Van Gogh's defense, he was determined to be the Bohemian artist he envisioned.

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Thucydides]

 

[Babe Ruth]

Some sad, but enlightening insights in this one.. including the tragic account of the author's sister (who suffered from borderline personality).