{"id":45392,"date":"2015-07-13T05:12:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T05:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45392"},"modified":"2015-07-13T05:12:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-13T05:12:50","slug":"new-books-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=45392","title":{"rendered":"New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Hit Half-Price<\/a> Books<\/a><\/strong> recently….<\/p>\n

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Leadership<\/strong> <\/a>by James MacGregor Burns<\/a><\/strong>
\nHow to Create a Mind<\/a><\/strong> by Ray Kurzweil<\/a><\/strong>
\nGoebbels<\/a><\/strong> by Peter Longerich<\/a><\/strong>
\nI Will Bear Witness<\/a><\/strong> by Victor Klemperer<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Red Baron<\/a><\/strong> (Autobiography)
\nMemoir of a Revolutionary<\/strong> <\/a>by Milovan Djilas<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Haunted Wood<\/a><\/strong> by Alexander<\/a> Vassiliev<\/a><\/strong> and Allen Weinstein<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Coming Anarchy<\/a><\/strong> by Robert Kaplan<\/a><\/strong>
\nThe Signal and the Noise: The Art and Science of Prediction<\/a><\/strong> by Nate Silver<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Haunted Wood <\/strong>was once groundbreaking and provocative and is now a classic of Cold War studies. Allen Weinstein<\/strong>, the former Archivist of the United States<\/a><\/strong>, died a month ago but he was better known as one of the historians who exposed <\/a>that<\/a> Alger Hiss<\/strong> <\/a>was indeed the Soviet spy, traitor and secret Communist inside the Roosevelt administration<\/strong> State Department that Whittaker Chambers<\/a><\/strong> and Richard Nixon<\/a><\/strong> said he was, an achievement that did not endear Weinstein to the dwindling band of hardcore leftist Hiss apologists at The Nation<\/em><\/strong> magazine.<\/p>\n

Milovan Djilas<\/strong> was a man who epitomized the same conflict as the Hiss-Chambers trial. \u00a0The right hand to Tito<\/strong> <\/a>in the Yugoslav Communist Party, Djilas was the highest ranking Communist official to become a dissident and critic, moving politically from convinced Stalinist to an advocate of free elections and liberal democracy<\/a>. Djilas shrewdly analyzed the Communist nomenklatura<\/em> <\/a>as an oppressive and parasitic oligarchy in The New Class<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What are you reading?<\/p>\n

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[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Hit Half-Price Books recently…. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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) Memoir of a Revolutionary by Milovan Djilas The Haunted Wood by Alexander Vassiliev and Allen Weinstein […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,133,445,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book","category-reading","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392","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=45392"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45433,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45392\/revisions\/45433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}