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    Amity Shlaes's Great Society: A New History. A great review of all the players--political, legal, business, union, religious, activist; capitalist, socialist; urban mayors, national leaders, 60s, 70s--of the great failure of our time. Striking are the similarities between Johnson and Nixon. Amazing was the amount of money spent on planning and how little on acting. Interesting how what worked for the middle class, ownership, was so little tried with the poor.
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    Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Another great book by the master, his first since The Road, sixteen years ago. There's no real plot to it. Point of view changes between the hero and the sister he loved. An examination of life and at times mathematics and physics.* At times there's a hint of Kafka's The Trial, as if someone's out to get the hero but he doesn't know why. Finished just I'm time, tomorrow the companion novel, Stella Maris, arrives.

    * See Dialogue with Cormac McCarthy About Science, on the occasion of his newest book releases.
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    Tomislav Sunić's Homo Americanus: Child of the Postmodern Age. This is a tough book to read. For one, it's not his best-written book. A Croatian who has a polysci doctorate from UC, Santa Barbara, and a naturalized citizen, his English seems to have slipped, especially in at time odd choices of words. The style is less direct and more round-about European. That compared to say his Postmortem Report: Cultural Examinations from Postmodernity. For another, this is a critical attack on Americanism from the point of view of a European who sees little difference between American liberals and conservatives, is especially critical of Puritan influences on politics, and argues Homo Americus the twin brother of Homo Societcus. Sunić, like Paul Gottfried in Fascism, and a few others, makes a definitive connection between the US post-war influence leading to the rise of the Frankfurt School and critical theory. He also makes an interesting analogy with that and the earlier post-Civil War treatment of the South and takes a look at intellectual Southern Agrarians whom so few of us even have heard of. Read, Americans, it if you can take criticism.
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    Started Rene Guenon's The Crisis of the Modern World. It's quite short at 187 pages and unexpectedly easy to read. I'm reminded a great deal of Julius Evola. Guenon appears to be a traditionalist of that mold.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger. Another great book by the master, his first since The Road, sixteen years ago. There's no real plot to it. Point of view changes between the hero and the sister he loved. An examination of life and at times mathematics and physics.* At times there's a hint of Kafka's The Trial, as if someone's out to get the hero but he doesn't know why. Finished just I'm time, tomorrow the companion novel, Stella Maris, arrives.

    * See Dialogue with Cormac McCarthy About Science, on the occasion of his newest book releases.

    Cormac McCarthy's Stella Maris, the companion novel to The Passenger. The sister's story is told entirely in dialog between her and a psychiatrist at Stella Maris, a psychiatric medical facility in Black River Falls, WI. McCarthy is very good at dialog so it's a pleasant and fast read. She is a mathematics genius so a lot of the story centers around mathematics but also looks at other topics like the subconscious, suicide, and her love for her brother.
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    Forrest Carter's Gone to Texas. This is the story of Josey Wales. If you've seen the Clint Eastwood movie, "The Outlaw Josey Wales," then you're familiar with the story. The theme of the disinherited, disenchanted Southerner still fighting is stronger in the book--the original title was The Rebel Outlaw Josey Wales. The movie maintains a single point of view while the book shifts between characters at times. Sometimes the transitions between major events in the story are a little long-winded, but for the most part the book is well-written, even exciting to read.

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    Just started "Gomorrah, A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples Organized Crime System," by Robert Saviano.

    This one was given to me (loaned) by an acquaintance who wanted me to read it. It's been on my to-read list for nearly two years, but I'm not sure how much I'll actually read. It's pretty bloody. I can tolerate fictional bloodiness, but non-fiction blood makes me queasy. Just too real.

    We'll see how it goes. I like his style of writing a lot, however.
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