Books I'm Reading
- The New Penguin History of the World: Fifth Edition by J. M. Roberts
- 1808 by Laruentino Gomes
- Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Poverty in America: A Handbook by John Iceland
- Down and Out in America: The Origins of Homelessness by Peter H. Rossi
- Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco by Teresa Gowan
- Direito Para Não Advogados by João Luiz Coelho da Rocha and Maria Pia Bastos-Tigre Buchheim
- Francis Bacon by Perez Zagorin
- O Xangô de Baker Street by Jô Soares
- The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
- Hardball by Chris Matthews
2014
- Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Manb y Catherine Drinker Bowen
- **** Nice, readable "invitation to Francis Bacon" as the author herself puts it.
- The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI by Betty Medsger
- ** Great story, horribly written. Half of the time it feels like Medsger, the reporter given access to the burglars, is attempting to write a newspaper article on the burglars emotions, with predictable stilted and un-entertaining results. The chapters have no flow, and Medsger decides to tell the lead-up to the story after the story is already over.
2013
- Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63 by Taylor Branch
- *****
- Pillar of Fire : America in the King Years 1963-65 by Taylor Branch
- *****
- At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch
- *****
- The Real North Korea: Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia by Andrei Lankov
- ****
- Will Rogers: A Biography by Ben Yagoda
- *** A passable biography; it will do in the face of few available.