James Fallows Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

James Fallows

@TimothyNoah1 @HeerJeet @thehighsign People with great entrepreneurial / financial success in early years take different paths in mid-life. Andrew Carnegie / JD Rockefeller / Bill Gates / W Buffett / etc. Henry Ford was in his 50s when primary identity switched to being a bigot.

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Nice to see this enthusiastic Paul Theroux review of @jmzbeijing 's "excellent" new book, The Peking Express. https://t.co/N5gGXaeTpu

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Re-upping from this morning: NYT book review, by me, of new book ‘Fallen Idols,’ by Alex Von Tunzelmann, on the very timely question of what to do with statues of now-controversial historic figures. https://t.co/bcB76exRDq https://t.co/hSRVGhw08f

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I’ve mentioned several times how much I enjoyed and admired ‘My Old Home,’ the epic novel of modern China-and-America by my good friend, the eminent @orvilleschell Here is a great interview with him that I’d missed: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/04/16/sponsored-after-a-40-year-writing-odyssey-berkeleys-orville-schell-publishes-his-first-novel h/t @ricredman

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@BeijingPalmer For Japan, I'd say 'Embracing Defeat' by John Dower. (Also, Iraq was to a significant degree a self-inflicted US disaster. See 'Blind Into Baghdad' by author I will not name.)

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If you read about this in a Charles Dickens novel .... https://t.co/GV1MPeKitP

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For people who have known Peter Navarro over the years through his work on China ('Death by China' film, related books, etc): Are you surprised by his career arc under Trump, including today his indictment?

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I am years late to this, but any fan of noir will be engrossed + amazed by ‘The Twenty-Year Death’ by @ArielSWinter, in @HardCaseCrime series, 2012 Three connected novels in voices/styles of Simenon, Raymond Chandler, and (most chillingly) Jim Thompson http://www.hardcasecrime.com/books_bios.cgi?title=The%20Twenty-Year%20Death

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I’ve said it before but can’t say it often enough: @OrvilleSchell ’s new novel, ‘My Old Home,’ really is magnificent. Buy it, read it, enjoy it. https://t.co/Kyzt6RQJAZ https://t.co/zm0wYu2oZh

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Re-upping from last night. I hope you'll read the stories of Henry Reese, Diane Samuels, @cityofasylum, and @chq, all highlighted by the attack on Salman Rushdie. By @FallowsDeb and me. https://t.co/Au5ynpII43

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