{"id":51529,"date":"2016-08-29T02:26:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51529"},"modified":"2016-08-29T02:26:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T02:26:52","slug":"a-plethora-of-newish-books-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51529","title":{"rendered":"A Plethora of New(ish) Books I."},"content":{"rendered":"

[Mark Safranski<\/strong> \/ “zen<\/strong>“]<\/p>\n

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Goddess of the Market<\/strong><\/a> by Jennifer Burns<\/strong><\/a>
\nA Gentle Madness<\/strong><\/a> by Nicholas A. Basbanes<\/strong><\/a>
\nSmall Wars, Faraway Places<\/strong><\/a> by Michael Burleigh<\/strong><\/a>
\nWarfare in Antiquity<\/strong><\/a> by Hans Delbruck<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Libertarian Mind<\/strong> <\/a>by David Boaz<\/strong><\/a>
\nOn Killing<\/strong><\/a> by LTC. Dave Grossman<\/strong><\/a>
\nGulag: A History<\/strong><\/a> by Anne Applebaum<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Muqaddimah<\/strong><\/a> by Ibn Khaldun<\/strong><\/a>
\nIn Denial: Historians, Communism & Espionage<\/strong><\/a> by John Earl Hynes<\/a> <\/strong>and Harvey Klehr<\/strong><\/a>
\nThe Restoration of Rome<\/strong><\/a> by Peter Heather<\/strong><\/a>
\nExcellent Sheep<\/strong><\/a> by William Deresiewicz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nothing makes me happier than buying a new batch of books. So I did. In a large enough\u00a0number to require two separate posts.<\/p>\n

A Gentle Madness<\/strong> intrigued me, naturally enough, when I caught it years ago on the old C-Span Booknotes program<\/a>, the book jacket mirrors the look of the old, fine press, book cover. Some of the authors, Burleigh, Boaz, Haynes and Klehr have written works I have enjoyed and already have on my shelf ( I used to be on a listserv with the last authors years ago in the pre-blogging era. Careful and smart scholars they were). On Killing<\/strong> is widely cited and remains controversial in military academic circles and two of the other books are classics.<\/p>\n

I’m not reading any of these books\u00a0at present. My time is currently occupied by with The Landmark Thucydides<\/strong> <\/a>in preparation for the upcoming Thucydides Roundtable<\/strong> <\/a>in October and also with Coming Apart<\/strong> <\/a>by libertarian intellectual and gadfly Charles Murray<\/strong><\/a> (seemed appropriate given the election cycle).<\/p>\n

What are you reading?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Mark Safranski \/ “zen“] \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Goddess of the Market by Jennifer Burns A Gentle Madness by Nicholas A. Basbanes Small Wars, Faraway Places by Michael Burleigh Warfare in Antiquity by Hans Delbruck The Libertarian Mind by David Boaz On Killing by LTC. Dave Grossman Gulag: A History […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[420,133,343,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-book","category-readers","category-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529","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=51529"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52154,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51529\/revisions\/52154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}