Economic sanctions may take a backseat to tariffs in President Donald Trump’s vision for the United States, but they are and will remain a tried-and-true javelin in Washington’s geopolitical arsenal. Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare is a welcome addition to a growing library of books that chronicle how this once-obscure tool […]
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Welcome to our weekly recommendation thread! A few years ago now the mod team decided to condense the many “suggest some books” threads into one big mega-thread, in order to consolidate the subreddit and diversify the front page a little. Since then, we have removed suggestion threads and directed their posters to this thread instead. […]
Dean O’Banion. Dean O’Banion Dean O’Banion, or Dion as he is often misnamed in history, is considered the archetype of Irish Chicago Gangsters. An impulsive, faintly religious, prankster who was oddly chivalrous and loyal to a fault was the original boss of the North Side Gang during Prohibition and his death became the catalyst for […]
I’m looking for a book tracking site/app with the following specific features: ability to add all books by an author or from a series – having to click add on GR for every single book for say, Stephen King, is so slow going; and when it comes to a series like the Forgotten Realms books, […]
A depiction of Pope Leo III crowning Charlemagne. Major campaigns and victories Charlemagne’s military conquests were central to his legacy. Over his reign, he expanded the Frankish Empire significantly, uniting much of Western and Central Europe. The Saxon Wars (772–804) One of Charlemagne’s longest and most grueling campaigns was the subjugation of the pagan […]
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Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the Argentine author Michel Nieva, emerges. The eponymous Dengue Boy is a mosquito–human hybrid who might be an experiment, a genetic mutant, or the result of some terrible corporate crime. He might be all three at once. In any […]
(REVIEW) On June 15, 2015, Donald Trump announced his presidential candidacy from Trump Tower, declaring, “I will build a great wall on our southern border.” This wall symbolizes the anti-immigration policies he pursued during his time in office, which continue to have lasting effects. Surprisingly, his statement about building a southern wall against immigrants reflects […]
I was never a fan of Steinbeck, and often I find "classics" to be underwhelming and not that great, I just don't see the appeal, they are boring. I don't know if it's because I'm older, or just better well read, but I just finished Travels with Charley and WOW, what a great book. It's […]