Kori Schake ๐ป๐บ๐ฆ @kschake.bsky.social Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Kori Schake ๐ป๐บ๐ฆ @kschake.bsky.social on X
Director of foreign/defense @AEI, author of Safe Passage, contributing writer at The Atlantic and War on the Rocks. Californian. RT = said better than I could.

Missionaries
Phil Klay
This is straight out of @PhilKlay's amazing novel Missionaries. https://t.co/zR3tbl89ko
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Black Cloud Rising
David Wright Faladรฉ
I'm so excited to while away the summer reading so many great sounding books I didn't know of! Thank you, @WarOnTheRocks. My recs: David Wright Faladรฉ's Black Cloud Rising, and Mick Herron's Slow Horses series ๐ https://warontherocks.com/2022/06/the-2022-war-on-the-rocks-summer-fiction-reading-list/
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Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders
Dennis C. Rasmussen
@kairyssdal To read while you recover: Dennis C. Rasmussen, Fears of a Setting Sun: the Disillusionment of Americaโs Founders. Hope you recover quickly, @kairyssdal
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
What a great Xmas reading list from @WarOnTheRocks! My recs: Hornfisher's magisterial The Fleet at Flood Tide, and McCarthy's messy, haunting The Passenger. https://t.co/U1x1Lk7pDJ
Paperback, 2023
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Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Kevin Wilson
Great news reads recommended by those of us in the Englesberg circle. Mine were @crmiller1's Chip Wars and the novel Now Is Not The Time to Panic. https://t.co/OEvBRSePa3
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
James D. Hornfischer
What a great Xmas reading list from @WarOnTheRocks! My recs: Hornfisher's magisterial The Fleet at Flood Tide, and McCarthy's messy, haunting The Passenger. https://t.co/U1x1Lk7pDJ
Paperback, 2017
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Moon is Down
John Steinbeck
โThe war came on,โ Steinbeck would later write, โand I wrote โThe Moon Is Downโ as a kind of celebration of the durability of democracy.โ Love this piece by @CharlesEdel. https://twitter.com/CharlesEdel/status/1498731140034801667
Paperback, 1995
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Becoming Madame Mao
Anchee Min
Reign of terror. Also a reminder of Jiang Qing's excellent novel Becoming Madam Mao. https://t.co/TiZRMhAsa1
Paperback, 2001
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency
John Dickerson
Important point by @jdickerson (from his excellent book The Hardest Job In the World) about the destabilizing effect of Trump Admin personnel policies. https://t.co/meL7NUnCPL
Paperback, 2021
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book