{"id":42276,"date":"2015-01-06T04:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42276"},"modified":"2015-01-06T04:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T04:30:52","slug":"new-bookapalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=42276","title":{"rendered":"New Bookapalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"

[by Mark Safranski<\/strong>, a.k.a. “zen<\/strong>“]<\/p>\n

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Stalin: Volume I – The Paradoxes of Power<\/strong> <\/a>by Stephen Kotkin<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

World Order<\/strong><\/a> by Henry Kissinger<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins<\/strong><\/a> by J.E. Lendon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A Culture of Freedom<\/a> <\/strong>by Christian Meier<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On Sacrifice<\/strong><\/a> by Moshe Halbertal<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Hitler: A Study in Tyranny<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Alan Bullock<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

My Command Operations<\/strong><\/a> by Otto “Scarface” Skorzeny<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thinking Fast and Slow<\/strong><\/a> by Daniel Kahneman<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Allen Dulles: Spymaster<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0by Peter Grose<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Road to Terror: Stalin and the Self-Destruction of the Bolsheviks 1932-1939<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>by J. Arch Getty<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and Oleg Naumov<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Vikings<\/strong><\/a> by Jonathan Clements<\/strong><\/p>\n

An unusually large book-buying spree on my part, fueled in part by a stash of Xmas gift cards.<\/p>\n

Reading Thinking Fast and Slow<\/strong> already and will probably start the Kotkin book on Stalin tomorrow and I have already finished On Sacrifice<\/strong>, which I will review elsewhere. I’ve resolved to get more books read this year as 2014 was kind of a nadir in that regard (more on that in another post) by my previous standards and looks rather woeful next to T. Greer’s<\/strong> list.<\/a><\/p>\n

Scott Shipman<\/strong> was instrumental in my picking up World Order,<\/strong> as he convinced me that after I had slogged through all the volumes of Kissinger’s memoirs that he still had something to say.<\/p>\n

What new titles have you acquired?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stalin: Volume I – The Paradoxes of Power by Stephen Kotkin World Order by Henry Kissinger\u00a0 Song of Wrath: The Peloponnesian War Begins by J.E. Lendon A Culture of Freedom by Christian Meier On Sacrifice by Moshe Halbertal Hitler: A Study in Tyranny\u00a0by Alan Bullock My Command Operations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,133,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42276"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42530,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42276\/revisions\/42530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}