Nils Gilman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Nils Gilman

The American foreign policy cognoscenti’s hopes & fears in the immediate post-Cold War moment are captured in three books: THE COMING ANARCHY, by Robert Kaplan; THE END OF HISTORY, by @FukuyamaFrancis, and THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS, by Samuel Huntington.

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The late 1940s have been celebrated as a time of visionary statesmanship, most notably by Tony Judt in his (magisterial!) POSTWAR. But the reality was in many cases much more sordid—dark, even. https://t.co/CKQ8lUH8MY

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There are many excellent novels by postwar American white men set in insane asylums and mental hospitals — Burroughs’s NAKED LUNCH, Exley’s A FAN’s NOTES, Kesey’s ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’s NEST, etc. — but other than Plath’s THE BELL JAR what are the best ones by women / POC?

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Excited to discuss the lived experience & history of planned economy reforms with @lea_ypi (author of FREE, a memoir about growing up in Albania) and ⁦@IsabellaMWeber⁩ (author of HOW CHINA ESCAPED SHOCK THERAPY). Join ⁦us⁩ Feb 13 in Los Angeles: https://t.co/lUn0xCi7TV

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For me it might have been DAVID COPPERFIELD, when I was 13. (The cheat answer for me is Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE WHITE COMPANY — now an almost entirely forgotten text — when I was six, but that’s because my father read it to me.)

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History is just one damned thing after another, a tale told by an idiot: and while the accompanying sound and fury is meaningful to the actors involved, it ultimately all signifies nothing.

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One of the remarkable things about Hannah Appel’s THE LICIT LIFE OF CAPITALISM is its account of how the “global mineral frontier” has entailed the creation of a global archipelago of gated micro-Houstons, housing expat executives and their families in the style to which…. https://t.co/G1TGD0e25H

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#100YearsAgoToday: Sinclair Lewis publishes "Babbitt," the unsurpassed novel of American hypocrisy, meretriciousness, and sententiousness

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@xriskology @hahnalytics That every racially disparate outcome is presumptively the result of racism is, as I'm sure you know, the position of Ibram X. Kendi in HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST, perhaps the leading left voice on this topic, who MacArthur has anointed a genius. Just as an example.

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#100YearsAgoToday: On James Joyce's 40th birthday, Sylvia Beach in Paris publishes his novel ULYSSES

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