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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Great publishing-world tale by @ricredman, on his own book ‘Bones of Hilo’ and James Kestrel’s ‘Five Decembers,’ from @HardCaseCrime . Worth reading both books, and this new article. https://www.postalley.org/2022/03/01/thatll-never-sell-why-you-still-shouldnt-judge-a-book-by-its-cover/ https://twitter.com/ricredman/status/1498703839351898115

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@gerstenzang @Esri Anthony Burgess's trilogy 'The Long Day Wanes.' It's obviously dated, from the days of British Malaya, but still valuable. And—a fraught suggestion, but interesting—the *enormously* controversial and also-dated 'Malay Dilemma' by the two-time PM of Malaysia, Mahathir Mohamed.

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Glad that publication day has come for FIVE DECEMBERS. Really powerful, absorbing crime / history saga. Congrats to @JamesKestrel and @HardCaseCrime https://t.co/uzkeWwumyU

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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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So glad to hear this news that FIVE DECEMBERS, by @JamesKestrel, has won the Edgar for Best Novel. It’s the one I was beating the drum for last fall: https://fallows.substack.com/p/four-books-to-notice Hope it gets ever broader attention. Congrats to the author, and to the @HardCaseCrime team. https://twitter.com/HardCaseCrime/status/1519870874282721280

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Great event last night at @PoliticsProse. Upshot was that if you were riveted by @praddenkeefe’s ‘Empire of Pain’ or ‘Say Nothing,’ you’ll want to get his new book ‘Rogues.’ We talked about how he does it, what he has learned, and what is the alternative to Doom Scrolling https://twitter.com/_colleenmurphy_/status/1542664107677159428

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Looking for absorbing read this summer? This is not new-news, but I can’t recommend highly enough @praddenkeefe’s Empire of Pain We’ve all seen Caro’s ‘Power Broker’ in background of Zoom interviews. This is similar caliber: how a person (family) changed the world, for the worse

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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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