RichC | October 2, 2025
Likely, Andrew Ross Sorkin’s new book, “1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History and How it Shattered a Nation,” is not on my “must buy list,” but the Bloomberg pre-release review below (see archive.ph) has it sounding relevant and interesting. So like my buddy Jeff, I’ve put it on my library hold list […]
RichC | July 27, 2025
History doesn’t always repeat, but as Mark Twain supposedly said, it often rhymes. That was my lingering thought after reading Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936: The Great Revolt and the Roots of the Middle East Conflict.” If you’re curious about how today’s Middle East complexities came to be, this well-researched and engaging book takes you back […]
RichC | July 14, 2021
Progress has been slow in my latest nightly book reading, in part due to being wiped-out by full days with our granddaughters last week and more recently watching a few episodes each night of an old 1965-1971 sitcom called Hogan’s Heroes (mention once before). So for a update on reading Operation Pedestal by Max Hastings, “I […]