James Slattery Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

James Slattery

Anyone read The Three Body Problem Liu Cixin? I'm a huge fan of the Golden Age of science fiction and this seems like a throwback to that era, and I'm about to go on a long trip, so seems like it might be a good time to tackle it.

James Slattery

Reading Anne Applebaum’s Red Famine about the Ukrainian Holodomor, and Soviet tactics to gain control of Ukraine in 1918 were eerily similar to the annexation of Crimea in 2014: send in troops in disguise, create phony local govts that then welcome Russian occupying forces, etc https://t.co/ciu7gyHXQy

James Slattery

In particular, I loved @TimothyDSnyder’s, @anneapplebaum’s, and @mashagessen’s books on the region in the mid-20th Century and Russia’s transition from Communism to the Putin regime, and Victor Sebestyen’s bio of Lenin. https://t.co/f0MgiQlckP

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James Slattery

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb by Richard Rhodes American Prometheus: The Triumph & Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin

James Slattery

If you want to read about Putin, The Man Without a Face by Masha Gessen still holds up, even though it was published ten years ago.

James Slattery

@stoneyybaloneyy The World at War about WWII, though the only way to stream it is on YouTube, and Cosmos by Carl Sagan, which I think is also only really available on YouTube at the moment?

James Slattery

Noooooooo, what a huge loss. His biography of Truman was very formative for me — for my interest in politics, history, the Cold War, in good writing. Not to mention his narration of The Civil War by Ken Burns. An absolute giant of American letters at the turn of the century. https://t.co/37uvBDR30z

James Slattery

I can’t wait — Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road are among my favorite books and I’d wondered if we would ever see more books from Cormac McCarthy. https://t.co/yaokU0Dlca

James Slattery

I'm sorry but I truly do not believe that in less than 24 hours these 12 people have actually read Confidence Man and are giving us fair ratings on the book itself rather than whatever grudge they (and many other people) seem to have against Maggie Haberman. https://t.co/eQu4NwMvrg

James Slattery

I can’t wait — Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men, and The Road are among my favorite books and I’d wondered if we would ever see more books from Cormac McCarthy. https://t.co/yaokU0Dlca