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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”.

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.

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

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

Great novel, yaar.

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.

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

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

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.