Misha Saul Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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🚨New Kvetch🚨 I review The Verge by @Patrick_Wyman (special mention to 1493 by @CharlesCMann and h/t @razibkhan) Was 1490 - 1530 a hinge period in time? (Link below) https://t.co/EVbDLjOQL9

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@gcochran99 That’s not what Tony Judt says in Postwar but could be wrong!

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I’m a bit late to it, but is this the single most important book to understand who we are today and how we got here? If I had to recommend only 2 books to understand that it would be this and Guns, Germs and Steel It’s a Trojan horse for 2 radical ideas: https://t.co/Nsho3we6um

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Robert Caro on the release of The Power Broker: “New York Times printed everything Moses said as if it was a fact. You woke up one morning and you read a headline ‘MOSES RIPS INTO VENOMOUS BIOGRAPHY’” Always has been

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@ElonBachman To be fair I was addicted to Simon Schama’s a History of Britain when I was like 10

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🚨New Kvetch🚨 *The Sublime Transgression of an Appalachian Hero* I really enjoyed Matthew McConaughey's memoir and wrote about why here It's the Platonic example of the Appalachian man as described in David Hackett Fischer’s Albion’s Seed https://t.co/bFTu4gqBAW

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@RuxandraTeslo Yes wrong entry point Joseph and His Brothers by Thomas Mann is an excellent into into Genesis

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🚨New Kvetch🚨 Coke Stevenson: A Texan Love Story Whether his story represents the Platonic ideal for all men, or whether it's just one beautiful manifestation of the Anglo-American Protestant, here it is (From Robert Caro's 'Means of Ascent') https://t.co/DSHu1jT9s6

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🚨New Kvetch: Sex & Agency On Louise Perry’s excellent "The Case Against the Sexual Revolution" https://t.co/SdylUDN5Mx

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Watching Judd Apatow’s “This is 40” with wife and laugh crying It’s literally a scene by scene, word by word script of our lives One of the grimmest things about aging is growing into comedies and dramas about your age group https://t.co/jQ3AmeGD3O