Archives for Category: Books

I Like Our Team

June 4, 2011

I just ordered David Mamet’s new book, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, about his path to conservatism. The Left can have all the Alec Baldwin’s, Sean Penn’s and Susan Sarandon’s they want. None of them can carry Mamet’s pencil. Here is Mamet’s seminal Village Voice article

The Liar

May 12, 2010

I see that Michael Bellesiles has a new book coming out. Who? Why should I care? A quick rundown: In 2000, Bellesiles wrote a book called Arming America, The Origins of a National Gun Culture. His general premise was that the commonly held view that America’s “gun culture” dates back

Reading List

March 21, 2010

Last book read: The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Very good. Books on the way: The Big Short, Michael Lewis. If it was “The Big Phone Book” by Michael Lewis, it would still be on the way. Shibumi, Trevanian. Meant to read this a long time ago. Fly Fishing with