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Print – The Looming Tower by Lawernce Wright
Last night I finished reading The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright1. The book won awards from Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times Book Review for being … Continue reading
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Tagged al-Qaeda, al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden, John O’Neill, Lawrence Wright, Non-Fiction, Print, Terrorism
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Print – Leaving Baghdad: Comparing New York With Home from the Baghdad Bureau Blog
While surfing around the New York Time’s Website, I stumbled across their list of blogs. One stuck out and called to me: Baghdad Bureau: Iraq From the Inside. I casually clicked on the link, and I’ve been reading their posts religiously ever since. … Continue reading
Print – Drive Small Cars and Wait for the Wind
I couldn’t resist commenting on this post from the Washington Post’s Capitol Briefing blog. Every week the blog invites top congressional staff to summerize the pending bills in congress. But this invitation opens the door for some comical partisan mudslinging. … Continue reading
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Tagged Democrats, Energy, News, Politics, Print, Republicans, Washington DC
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Print – Coach by Michael Lewis
I just have a quick post to let people know about a book called Coach by Michael Lewis. It is a very short memoir about Lewis’s experiences playing baseball under his high school coach. It turns out years after Lewis … Continue reading
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Print – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
On a flight from Washington, DC to Chicago1 I decided I needed a new/different book to read. I had been reading a lot of non-fiction lately2 so I was on the lookout for some interesting fiction. Browsing the airport bookstore … Continue reading
Print – Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges
There are many good books about legal writing and rhetoric, but Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges is one of the best I have read. Of course I was probably destined to reach that conclusion because the authors … Continue reading
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Tagged Brief, Garner, Law, Law School, Legal Rhetoric, Non-Fiction, Oral Argument, Print, Rhetoric, Scalia, Supreme Court, Writing
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Two Lawyerly Books.
I purchased two new books today that I am eager to read. Both books are focused on the legal profession, specifically trying to help lawyers and law students understand how a judge thinks. I’ll post more on these two books … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan A. Garner, How Judges Think, Law, Law School, Legal Rhetoric, Non-Fiction, Print, Richard Posner, Scalia, Writing
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Waiting for White Horses – Nathan Jorgenson
A quick review of Nathan Jorgenson’s book: Waiting For White Horses Continue reading
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Tagged Baseball, College, Duck, Duck Hunting, Fiction, Great Plains, Great Plains, Hunting, Leech Lake, Life, Midwest, Minnesota, Nathan Jorgenson, Outdoors, Print, Waiting for White Horses, Walker, Washington DC
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Khaled Hosseini – The Kite Runner
Before posting on Anderson Cooper’s or Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s book I’d like to write about a book I just read. On my flight from Washington DC to Fargo, North Dakota I had the pleasure of reading The Kite Runner by … Continue reading
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Tagged A thousand splendid suns, afghanistan, brothers, Fiction, Khaled Hosseini, Movies, Print, Taliban, The Kite Runner, United States
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Bill Clinton – Giving
I like to read books from both sides of the political spectrum in order to better understand our country’s political landscape. Even though I expect politics coming in books written by politicians, I was surprised by the type of politics … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Democrats, Election, Giving, Hillary, Hillary Clinton, Life, Non-Fiction, Politics, Print, William Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton
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Upcomming Posts
Look soon for posts on: Bill Clinton – Giving Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Market Anderson Cooper – Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and … Continue reading
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Allah Is Not Obliged – Ahmadou Kourouma
Twain’s Huckleberry Finn meets Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment interlaced with a sailor’s reputation for swearing; that’s how I could best describe the action, tone and themes of Allah Is Not Obliged written by Ahmadou Kourouma. The basic plot summery is … Continue reading