by zen | Dec 28, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] My usual yuletide haul of books received and purchased…. The Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward Being Nixon: A Man Divided by Evan Thomas Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern...
by zen | Sep 24, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command by Sean Naylor I just received a courtesy review copy of Relentless Strike from John at St. Martin’s Press. Increasingly viewed as a...
by zen | Sep 7, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York by Michael Muhammed Knight Ideal by Ayn Rand The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith...
by zen | Aug 16, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Blood Meridian: or The Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy Cormac McCarthy and Blood Meridian first came to my attention back in 2000 when noted literary critic, Yale professor Harold Bloom was interviewed on...
by zen | Jul 13, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Hit Half-Price Books recently…. Leadership by James MacGregor Burns How to Create a Mind by Ray Kurzweil Goebbels by Peter Longerich I Will Bear Witness by Victor Klemperer The Red Baron (Autobiography)...
