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READINGS

PRIMARY PERIODICALS FOR MY READING/RESEARCH

  • Los Angeles Times (print and digital)
  • New York Times (print Sundays and digital)
  • The Economist (print)
  • Newsweek (digital)
  • The Week (print)
  • Foreign Affairs (print)
  • Skeptical Inquirer (print)
  • Free Inquiry (print)
  • National Geographic (print and digital)
  • The Atlantic (print and digital)
  • Harper's (print)

BOOKS CURRENTLY READING & ON DECK

  • The Bible - The New Oxford Annotated Bible (4th Edition) - New Revised  Standard Version with the Apocrypha, and an online version - Reading a chapter, then the annotation. Now in Numbers.

  • The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. (Volume 1 in the Oxford History of the United States series) by Robert Middlekauff.

  • Lincoln's Greatest Journey: Sixteen Days that Changed a Presidency, March 24-April 8, 1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau. (A gift from my brother, Gene, & Jan)

  • A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism by Jeffrey D. Sachs.

  • Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942 (Volume 1) by Ian Toll.

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ON DECK:

  • The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci (a Christmas gift from son Scott and Jess)

  • Leadership in Turbulent Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin (a Christmas gift from brother, Gene, and Jan)

  • Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans by Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis.

  • Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam War by Mark Bowden.

  • The Vietnam War by Ken Burns. (Companion volume to upcoming PBS series.

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 FINISHED (and to be reviewed here in the near future):

  • Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War by James Risen

  • Land on Fire: The New Reality of Wildfire in the West by Gary Ferguson

FAVORITE BOOKS (selected & not in any order)

  • Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

  • A Separate Peace by John Knowles

  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare

  • A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

  • Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll by M.G. Lord

  • American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin by Hua-ling Hu

  • The Civil War: A Narrative (3 volumes) by Shelby Foote

  • The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro

  • The Sand Pebbles by Richard McKenna

  • Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1917/1918 by Frederic Morton

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