An I-Dare-You Brattle Bookshop Haul!

As I am unschooled on the battles of the Civil War, any discussion of the South’s generals will start my mind singing the tale of General Jubilation T. Cornpone. 😀 (from L’il Abner)

Well, now I feel the urge to raise you one book haul...

“These squishy things” spews tea everywhere 🤣

"I wasn't planning on going back to the Brattle bookshop..." Oh really? So funny, it should be cross-stitched into a sampler and given to you for the little Bookroom, to sit quietly in the background.

Yuval Harari might be the least macho dudebro out there...but absolutely! I know you resist the lefty approach of social history, but their take on the Civil War might be much more to your liking...

Irving Wallace/Arthur Hailey/Leon Uris/ Herman Wouk/ Taylor Caldwell/Irwin Shaw

You should really do a long piece on SteveReads called something like "What the hell is BookTube, And why should anyone care?" Let's face it, if anyone was qualified to write such a piece, then it's you...

I just started reading Colonel Roosevelt by Morris yesterday! The second book is my favorite in the trilogy with all of the material it covers.

I read The Fan Club by Irving Wallace for Garbaugust last year. Entertaining book.

The battle of the Boston Subway sounds bad enough, never mind Gettysberg... A study of mid-century popular writers (1945-80s) - how and why they had status would be fascinating. A single volume of the 25 volume Ridpath's Universal Library of Writers came my way - and it illustrates just how many authors from a given century are simply forgotten (maybe with good reason). I like your approach to Jim Marrs. I would argue it could be said American democracy ended with the public execution of JFK by order of dismissed Director of the CIA, which accounts for why it resonates. There are evident problems and plenty of precursors - Kennedy (brothers) opposition to covert complicity, deviation of a hair-pin route of an open-top presidential car through a triangulated built-up urban area. The macabre detail that the plotters wanted Kennedy to know he was being executed - the throat shot left the man pinioned upright. The withholding of evidence (some 1000+ items), maybe unimportant, but somebody has decided not for judgement - making any enquiry (even the vaulted Bugliosi) deficient. -Andrew Mackanna, ChCh NZ. 5/24

Longstreet's history is fascinating. After the war, he went on to become a U.S. Ambassador....

Please share the bag with us.

The rant about the Dudebros was epic... dude Lol.

I am curious should the colonists have lost their rebellion against the crown, would the British and American loyalists have been justified in doing to them what you said should have been done to the confederacy or is the reason for your opinion based only on the South's wishing to retain slavery?

The exception to the no women rule is Anne Rand .

As a woman who has lost several friends to dude bro radicalization, I can confirm there is hardly any hyperbole in that rant.