Richard Brookhiser Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Richard Brookhiser

George WS Trow My Pilgrim’s Progress has an interesting take on Marshall and Ike.

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No: such a dark subject. I read Martin Amis Koba the Dread, a look by an amateur who didn't have to go there. And I have the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1939). https://t.co/lOtkHPXOuL

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TH was all in on the French Rev until Napoleon. Conor Cruise O’Brien The Long Affair is the Javert version of this. https://t.co/iDVgmmzYxa

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Just out: The Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy (V. 21, #1) publishes its symposium "Commemorating the Constitutional Contributions of Gouverneur Morris" with essays by William Michael Treanor, J. Jackson Barlow, Jonathan Gienapp, Melanie Randolph Miller and me.

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Yes. AH's eldest son Philip killed in 1801, AH in 1804. They belonged to John Church, AH's brother-in-law. The Hamilton's were challenged, and so had the right to pick the weapons. They were Wogdens, a high-end Brit firm, .54 calibre, 9" barrels. https://t.co/FgXATXdASw

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True enough. A number of patriots were from the British isles--RMorris, James Wilson, Richard Montgomery, Horatio Gates. NB Benedict Arnold was New Haven born and raised. Still the West Indies were perhaps a little more exotic https://t.co/SIms8ZsUF1

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Anyone reading Borges in the wake of Argentina's World Cup victory should read "The Remote Cause" first page of "The Cruel Redeemer Lazarus Morrell" Universal History of Iniquity for an interesting take on the history, political and cultural, of the Americas.

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I read a fascinating book awhile ago--might have been Robert Lyman Iraq 1941--about Britain's successful efforts to defend Syria and Iraq from local Axis and Axis-backed forces. One memorable moment: a Palestinian auxilliary who spoke the Iraqi dialect & misled the enemy. https://t.co/kgdxUGZZ0h

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Poetical Works by Samuel Johnson: Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. Translated. Worth tweeting again. Beautiful, sad, brave. https://t.co/5qkHba6ZnK

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Brag: the man I met at the bar was Mordecai Richler. Anyone who hasn't read The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz should. Harrowing.