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With Both Hands and The Long View Re-posting Project Status Update

With the arrival of 2021, I felt it was time to take stock of the status of the blog, and see whether any shifts in approach are needed. With the general lack of mobility in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, I turned the blog more heavily to book reviews, especially

The Long View: The Third Reich in Power

Richard J. Evans shows that the Third Reich was about Art and Health. The Third Reich in Power By Richard J. Evans The Penguin Press, 2005 941 Pages, US$37.95 ISBN 1-59420-074-2 A thousand years would be needed, I think, to read all the books that have already been

Linkfest 2021-01-15

Why America is haunted by Ancient Rome Historian Tom Holland [not Spiderman] correctly identifies the current moment as roughly equivalent to the time when the Gracchi were murdered. Working Off-Grid Efficiently The voice of experience with relying on solar power and spotty wifi to conduct business. Woo for its own

The Earth a Machine to Speak Yankee Republic Book 5 by Fenton Wood Book Review

The Earth a Machine to Speak [Amazon link] by Fenton Wood is a satisfying conclusion to Philo’s adventures. That is no mean feat. The series has an ending, and that ending left me feeling that Philo had been done justice in fictional form. I think it is fair to

The Long View 2008-03-20: Missing Greenhouse Signature; Arthur C. Clarke; JFK & Religion; Dune 2.0; Extreme Good Friday

The passing of Arthur C. Clarke in 2008 spurred this comment by John J. Reilly: Here is a mystery: Clarke was usually counted among the Big Three of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; the other two were Isaac Asimov and Robert Heinlein. All of them

The Long View: The Making of the President 1960

Sixty years later, this is still fascinating. The Making of the President 1960 By Theodore H. White Atheneum Publishers, 1961 400 Pages, Various Prices ASIN B000BPDQ28 Historians have long since written the second and third drafts about the contest between John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Richard Milhous Nixon for the presidency

The City of Illusions Yankee Republic Book 4 by Fenton Wood

The City of Illusions: Yankee Republic Book 4 [Amazon link] by Fenton Wood is Philo’s most fantastical adventure yet, as he traverses the Tower of the Bear, travels through time, and survives the challenges of the Obsidian Tower. As we are now four books into a five book series,