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June 28, 2009

Book: Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street

Filed under: Books — dave @ 6:39 pm

Lewis certainly writes a good story, this one about his time as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the 80’s. Now I feel like I don’t need to read “Bonfire of the Vanities”.

June 22, 2009

Book: Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World

Filed under: Books — dave @ 10:10 pm

I seem to be doing a bit of a survey of the early twentieth century. In this case, a study of the four main central bankers of the period and their role in the disasters, financial and otherwise, that befell us throughout. According to this author, their folly and tragedy was clinging to the gold standard long after it had become a hindrance.

June 16, 2009

Wedding Pictures

Filed under: Pictures — dave @ 6:22 pm

Instead of getting my own scanner, I decided to let ScanCafe do it. You send off your negatives and get them back with a DVD of the scans. It takes a while, but the quality is great and you don’t have to do any real work. So here is all the pictures from our wedding day.

June 15, 2009

Book: Just And Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument With Historical Illustrations

Filed under: Books — dave @ 8:17 pm

A well-written and well-reasoned analysis of justice in warfare and the justice of warfare.

June 7, 2009

Book: Feet of Clay

Filed under: Books — dave @ 9:40 am

A golem revolt. Pratchett must be the best living satirist in the English language.

June 6, 2009

Book: Midnight’s Children: A Novel

Filed under: Books — dave @ 8:41 am

Great novel, yaar.

June 1, 2009

Book: Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Filed under: Books — dave @ 9:01 pm

My country was such a different place before FDR and World War II. It is a struggle to see that world through 19th and early 20th century eyes. FDR’s responsibility for the transformation cannot be underestimated and this book does an estimable job of reviewing his life and work. Highly recommended. But having finished it, I can’t say I have any idea where his radicalism came from. Perhaps this is not the fault of the book; he seems to have been a fundamentally private person. And a truly singular one at that.

Book: The Tulip: The Story of the Flower That Has Made Men Mad

Filed under: Books — dave @ 9:01 pm

Full confession: I skimmed the last two chapters. Spoiler alert: some people really like tulips.

May 11, 2009

Book: Agent Zigzag

Filed under: Books — dave @ 2:35 pm

The remarkable story of the British thief and WWII double-agent Eddie Chapman.

May 10, 2009

Book: The Great Crash of 1929

Filed under: Books — dave @ 10:37 am

Although both written by economists, the contrast between this book and “Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom?” is so stark in every way, in matters of both style and substance, I am afraid if I put them next to each other on the same shelf a literary vortex would form and proceed to swallow the entire written record of human existence. So I won’t do that.

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