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    Andy Adams, The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days. The story of adventure on a cattle drive from Brownsville, Texas, where they receive the cattle across the Rio Grand from Mexico, on up to Fort Benton, Montanna, to an Indian Reservation where the cattle is delivered. Stampedes, Indians, cattle hustlers, tall tales around campfires, shootouts, "good whiskey and bad women" in towns along the way. A novel worth reading.
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    THE LAST LION: WINSTON SPENCER CHURCHILL by William Manchester: An awesome biography of, IMHO, the greatest human being of the twentieth century.

    THE REAL LINCOLN BY Thomas DiLorenzo: A controversial biography of IMHO the worst POTUS ever.
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    RIP Wes

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    Alain de Benoist & Charles Champetier, Manifesto for a European Renaissance. This was written in 1999 on GRECE's thirtieth anniversary. GRECE stands for Groupement de Recherche et d'Études pour la Civilisation Européenne, sometimes called the Nouvelle Droite by outsiders. It's an eclectic amalgamation of ideas and views and positions on, as I see it, not returning to but restoring France to its pre-Enlightenment state. A good summary of Alain de Benoist work. It's short, only 47 pages.
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    Mark Koyama & Jared Rubin, How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth. Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World established the rise of wealth in the world. How the World Became Rich attempts, with a survey of modern, empirical economic literature, to explain how it happened and why it happened in northeastern Europe, specifically Britain, and then spread to America. It looks at a wide variety of preconditions, causes, and factors including culture in its attempt to explain it. It does a good job. Its only major failing is in assuming something taking place over only the last 200 years is permanently sustainable.
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    This is a beauty of a read, I first heard about this satire from the daily Mail in 2016 I ordered a 2nd hand copy that day. You won’t put it down …truly a master piece of wit



    Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1924 and, later that year, by Houghton Mifflin in the United States. The author was an English physician, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), and the illustrations were by "Robin" (Marjorie Blood).
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    Quote Originally Posted by Manny Decker View Post
    This is a beauty of a read, I first heard about this satire from the daily Mail in 2016 I ordered a 2nd hand copy that day. You won’t put it down …truly a master piece of wit



    Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man is a satire, originally anonymous, first published in the United Kingdom in May 1924 and, later that year, by Houghton Mifflin in the United States. The author was an English physician, Sir Henry Howarth Bashford (1880–1961), and the illustrations were by "Robin" (Marjorie Blood).
    This puts me in mind of a book that I read a long, long time ago. It was supposed to be the diary of a similarly clueless man, only I don't recall him being upper-class. Possibly 'The Diary of a Nobody' by the Grossmith brothers...? I should get back into reading Anthony Trollope. His satire of English prelates and the gentry was relatively subtle, but such a pleasure to read! Trollope was a master of the language and his Barsetshire books especially are classics.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    This puts me in mind of a book that I read a long, long time ago. It was supposed to be the diary of a similarly clueless man, only I don't recall him being upper-class. Possibly 'The Diary of a Nobody' by the Grossmith brothers...? I should get back into reading Anthony Trollope. His satire of English prelates and the gentry was relatively subtle, but such a pleasure to read! Trollope was a master of the language and his Barsetshire books especially are classics.
    Get a copy…. Tell me what you think of it?
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    Get a copy…. Tell me what you think of it?
    I will do that. I suspect that some of the references will go over my (American) head, as happened every so often while I was watching 'Cunk on Britain', but it looks like something I'd enjoy.
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