In March, our book club will discuss The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick. This is a great story! It takes place (and was written) in the late fifties in Vietnam, Burma and a mythical nearby country called Sarkhan. The Ugly American himself does not show up until towards the end of […]
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In a departure from my regular reading plan, I recently enjoyed David J. Schwartz’ The Magic of Thinking Big. First published in 1959, the book is dated yet very refreshing. It is one of those books like Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People and Hill’s Think and Grow Rich. The cover of my […] A friend from Nuevo Laredo recommended Fred Burton’s Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent last fall, then a neighbor lent it to me last week. I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it tonight after work. This was an interesting, if melodramatic, look at the creation of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service’s (DSS) Counterterrorism […] Prior to last month’s discussion of The World is Flat, I was trying to finish Fareed Zakaria‘s The Post-American World. Oh well, better late than never. Zakaria starts off the book discussing the “rise of the rest” and how many parts of the rest of the world (states and non-states) are doing much better these […] Our book club selection for February is Mark Krikorian’s The New Case Against Immigration: Both Legal and Illegal. Krikorian is the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and the grandson of immigrants himself. He argues that today’s mass immigration is not good for today’s America. Our current immigration situation and policy have […] |
