Michael Brendan Dougherty Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Jack WhiteMichael Brendan Dougherty@JacobSivogah It's really noticeable to me- a guy who is suddenly interested in scratching the itch again, after mostly putting my guitars down 18 years ago. It used to be all about "How is Jack White getting that sound?" Now the prevailing "How do I make it more shimmery like Hillsong?"
Hardcover, 2022
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The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945
Nicholas StargardtMichael Brendan DoughertyCaptures a lot of what I found so haunting at the end of The German War by Nicholas Stargardt, including the pervasive dread that the German people together with Hitler brought this upon themselves and understood they deserved worse.
Paperback, 2017
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Message
North CarolinaMichael Brendan Dougherty@Coolapple28 He could lose more than just those Brexit States. He needs a message for the Trump voter in Virginia and North Carolina as much as Michigan and Pennsylvania, and it can't be "Become Florida"
Paperback, 2010
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Ireland: The Twentieth Century
Charles TownshendMichael Brendan DoughertyThe credible threat of violence can erect a state, re-order constitutions are maintain a Union. I look at Charles Townshend’s authoritative history The Partition, Ireland Divided 1885-1925. https://t.co/2f2POwJvlo
Paperback, 1999
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The Phoney Victory: The World War II Illusion
Peter HitchensMichael Brendan DoughertyMy favorite prose from the last few years is the devastating concluding image at the end of Peter Hitchens’ The Phoney Victory. “Prince of Wales still lies, her huge 44,000-ton bulk turned upside down by the violence of the enemy, nearly 40 fathoms deep off the Malaysian coast.… https://t.co/MJ1h8hyvlg
Paperback, 2020
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Ireland: Social, Political, and Religious
Gustave de BeaumontMichael Brendan Dougherty@Michalis_Vlahos Ever read Gustave de Beaumont on Ireland? He traveled Ireland with Tocqueville. A modern day Shinner would have trouble expressing as much disdain for the Anglo-Irish aristocracy as de Beaumont did.
Paperback, 2007
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam HarrisMichael Brendan Dougherty@SteveSkojec @JosephSciambra @jdflynn Indeed. And you can find very congenial unbelievers like Sam Harris arguing in the End of Faith that it is also legitimate to kill people for things they merely believe. No God needed!
Paperback, 2005
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Ireland
Thomas BartlettMichael Brendan Dougherty@A65451985 For a single book, I really like Thomas Bartlett. Ireland a History. Very readable.
Paperback, 2011
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Ecumenical Jihad: Ecumenism and the Culture War
Peter KreeftMichael Brendan DoughertyPeter Kreeft’s Ecumenical Jihad re-emerges after a long war-on-terror slumber. https://t.co/jUoXea4kYV
Paperback, 2019
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The Boat: Stories
Nam LeMichael Brendan DoughertySomeone needs to write a big profile on former lawyer turned Iowa Writer's prodigy Nam Le, whose short story collection The Boat set the literary world on fire 15 years ago. He reportedly went to work on a novel, but seems to have been diverted into poker just to make a living.
Paperback, 2009
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