Richard Brookhiser Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Biographer, historian, journalist, senior editor National Review (my columns: City Desk, Country Life)
The Radetzky March: Introduction by Alan Bance
Joseph RothRichard BrookhiserThe parting look, which both shows how it finally failed and hints what would be lost when it did is Joseph Roth The Radetzky March. All the cool kids like Robert Musil The Man Without Qualities but I have never been able to get beyond the first page. https://t.co/03cfXsi2jw
Hardcover, 1996
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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1998
George W. S. TrowRichard BrookhiserGeorge WS Trow My Pilgrim’s Progress has an interesting take on Marshall and Ike.
Paperback, 2000
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Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
Martin AmisRichard BrookhiserNo: 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
Paperback, 2003
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The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800
Conor Cruise O'BrienRichard BrookhiserTH 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
Paperback, 1998
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Poems by the way, By William Morris: essays
William MorrisRichard BrookhiserJust 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.
Paperback, 2016
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World War II: Weapons
John HamiltonRichard BrookhiserYes. 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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A Universal History of Iniquity
Jorge Luis BorgesRichard BrookhiserAnyone 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.
Paperback, 2004
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First Victory: 1941: Blood, Oil and Mastery in the Middle East, 1941
Robert LymanRichard BrookhiserI 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
Paperback, 2021
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Works
Samuel JohnsonRichard BrookhiserPoetical Works by Samuel Johnson: Horace, Lib. iv. Ode vii. Translated. Worth tweeting again. Beautiful, sad, brave. https://t.co/5qkHba6ZnK
Paperback, 2010
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Mordecai RichlerRichard BrookhiserBrag: the man I met at the bar was Mordecai Richler. Anyone who hasn't read The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz should. Harrowing.
Paperback, 2003
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