Center for Strategic Communication

New Books

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“]            The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft ad the Call of National Security by Bartholomew Sparrow The Fall of the Athenian Empire by Donald Kagan The Memoirs of Ernst Rohm by Ernst Rohm Heinrich Himmler by Peter...

Three Books New and Three Books Used

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]             Diary of the Dark Years by Jean Guéhenno  Augustus by Adrian Goldsworthy  The Nixon Tapes edited by Douglas Brinkley & Luke Nichter  Japanese Swordsmanship: Technique and Practice by Gordon Warner &...

More Books for the Antilibrary

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”]           Hitler and the Power of Aesthetics by Frederic Spotts  Wired for Culture: Origins of the Human Social Mind by Mark Pagel  How Hitler Could have Won WWII by Bevin Alexander The American Way of War: A History of...

REVIEW: The Orientalist by Tom Reiss

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss  Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...

REVIEW: American Spartan by Ann Scott Tyson

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen’] American Spartan: The Promise, the Mission, and the Betrayal of Special Forces Major Jim Gant by Ann Scott Tyson  When I first posted that I had received a review copy of American Spartan from Callie, it stirred a vigorous...