The Vietnam War had all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. America’s best and brightest picking up the French’s tab in a colonial war that ultimately marked the beginning of America’s decline, if not economically at least ideologically. In hindsight, we see the Vietnam War as one of the many conflicts in a series of [...]
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America in the fifties was a country thrust into the spotlight against the vestiges of isolationist past. The only Western power standing with the homeland unscathed as Europe coped with the aftermath of a war-ravaged terrain and the encroachment of the Soviet Union, with which the West had forged an uneasy alliance that was slowly [...]
This book is a collection of contemporary documents and small pieces covering the expanse of Brazil, both its history and culture. We tend to see Brazil as an idealized melting pot of the races, a land filled with sun that moves to the rhythm of samba. Yet in reality there is crime, racial tension, an [...]
Barack Obama is still a mystery to me. Reading this book really didn’t answer much about the man who will likely be our president for the next 4 years to come. Barack Obama was born and raised in Hawaii with a short spell in Indonesia since his mother married and divorced an exchange student from [...]
This book is really small and short to the point of almost regretting its purchase. One thing you take away from this book is that there is no real short cut which is why the “quitting strategy” comes in. For the one thing that matters, the one thing you have potential to excel at, you [...]
The Rum Diary is Hunter S Thompson’s long lost novel written when he was 22. The cover shows a young and handsome Hunter before drugs when he was working as a journalist in Puerto Rico. The story follows Paul Kemp, a thirty something journalist, who drifts into the San Juan newspaper scene where mediocre English [...]