Tell Me What You’re Reading No. 29: Andrew Wilcox - Richard Ravitz and Paul Volcker memoirs, Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, JFK, Nixon, and Lepore’s masterpiece, These Truths
Andrew Wilcox discusses So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises, a memoir by Richard Ravitz, former head of the New York State Urban Development Corporation and of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority; Keeping At It, by former Federal Reserve Board Chairman Paul Volcker; The Fifth Risk by Michael Lewis; JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956, by Fredrik Logevall; Being Nixon: A Man Divided, by Evan Thomas; and These Truths, A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
What Andrew is Reading
So Much to Do: A Full Life of Business, Politics, and Confronting Fiscal Crises, by Richard Ravitch
Reviews Daily Kos | Newsday | City Journal
Keeping At It, by Paul Volcker
Reviews Financial Times | The New York Times | The Washington Post | Fortune | The Volcker Alliance | The Atlantic | Foreign Affairs | The Times | Kirkus Reviews
The Fifth Risk, by Michael Lewis
Reviews The New York Times | The New York Times | NPR | London School of Economics | Kirkus Reviews | The Wall Street Journal | The New York Review of Books | The Tmes of London | The Baffler | The Los Angeles Review of Books | The Philadelphia Inquirer | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917‒1956, by Fredrik Logevall
Reviews The Boston Globe | The New York Times | The Washington Post | The Guardian | Wilson Center
Being Nixon: A Man Divided, by Evan Thomas
Reviews The New York Times | The Atlantic | Kirkus Reviews | Chicago Tribune
These Truths, A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The Times | WBUR | The Nation | Los Angeles Review of Books | The Economist | National Review | The Harvard Gazettstonee | The New York Review of Books | New York Magazine | Kirkus Reviews | Chicago Tribune | The Dallas Morning News | Rolling Stone | The New Republic | The Paris Review | American Academy in Berlin | NPR
This America, by Jill Lepore
Reviews The New York Times | Columbia University | Princeton University | Kirkus Reviews | The Nation
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Review The New Yorker
How to Read and Why, by Harold Bloom
Review The Guardian Obit The New York Times
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
Reviews The New York Times | The Atlantic | The Guardian
Lewis Mumford
Obit The New York Times
Madame Bovary, by Gustave Flaubert
Reviews The New Yorker | The Atlantic | The Guardian | The New York Times | The Paris Review | Los Angeles Review of Books | Financial Times
Cormac McCarthy Novels
The Orchard Keeper (1965)
Outer Dark (1968)
Child of God (1974)
Suttree (1979)
All the Pretty Horses (1992)
The Crossing (1994)
Cities of the Plain (1998)
No Country for Old Men (2005)
The Road (2006)
What Howard is Reading
Rage, by Bob Woodward
Reviews The Washington Post | The New York Times | The New Yorker | The Guardian | The Los Angeles Times | Los Angeles Review of Books |Slate
These Truths, A History of the United States, by Jill Lepore
The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom
Reviews The New York Times | The Guardian | The New Yorker
Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg
Reviews The Guardian | The Washington Post | The New York Times | L.A. Review of Books | Kirkus | The Berkshire Edge | The New York Review of Books
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Bookworms In The Wild Review
A moving and hopeful memoir by a future leader of our great country, an extraordinarily well educated, yet humble and practical, son of the Midwest and self described millennial that recounts and reflects his experience as a very successful Mayor of South Bend, and as a Navy Lieutenant in Afghanistan, his experience with foreign affairs as well as urban affairs, experience addressing issues of race, urban housing, gun violence, policing, data driven efficient, analytical, rigorous city management, taking advantage of AI and machine learning along with intuition and judgment, and as a human rights advocate, his personal experience as a member of the LGBTQ community and his relationship with the man who would become his husband, and his experience as a Rhodes scholar student of philosophy, politics and economics who recognizes the Importance of coupling policy with symbolism, being present as the mayor, on behalf of the city, to show empathy, and who believes in “working at the local level as part of building a better nation, tearing down obstacles to a good everyday life in a single community, knowing how the small adds up to the great”, and who is likely to have the opportunity to do so much more, in 2020 or thereafter. #2020BookClub #Tell Me What Your Reading
Andrew’s Bookstore Shout Outs
Word Brooklyn
The Strand NYC!
Howard’s Bookstore Shout Outs
The Golden Notebook, Woodstock
Rough Draft Bar & Books, Kingston
