{"id":5660,"date":"2013-06-24T21:35:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2022-01-18T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T11:32:46","slug":"recent-reading-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/recent-reading-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent reading 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/category\/recent-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sequence<\/a> of lists of recently-read books:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Igor Lukes [2012]: <em>On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague<\/em>.&nbsp; Oxford University Press.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; Some comments <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/06\/czechoslovakian-betrayals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Randall Woods [2012]: <em>Shadow Warrior: William Egan Colby and the CIA<\/em>.&nbsp; Basic Civitas Books.&nbsp;<\/strong>Colby comes across as remarkably liberal, pragmatic&nbsp;and sensible in this account of his life, promoting agrarian socialism and grass-roots democracy to beat the communists in South Vietnam, for example.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roger Hermiston [2013]:&nbsp; <em>The Greatest Traitor: The Secret Lives of Agent George Blake<\/em>.&nbsp; Aurum Press.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>C P Snow [1969]:&nbsp; <em>Variety of Men<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;Penguin Books, second edition.<\/strong>&nbsp;(HT:&nbsp; Saul Smilansky at <a href=\"http:\/\/normblog.typepad.com\/normblog\/2013\/04\/writers-choice-380-saul-smilansky.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Normblog<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charlotte Joko Beck&nbsp;[1997]: <em>Everyday Zen: Love and Work<\/em>.&nbsp; Thorsons.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>James Button&nbsp;[2013]:&nbsp; <em>Speechless: A Year in my Father&#8217;s Business<\/em>.&nbsp; Melbourne University Press.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong> A mention <a href=\"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/2013\/03\/political-talk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Robert Dessaix&nbsp;[2012]: <em>As I was Saying<\/em>.&nbsp; Random House Australia.<\/strong>&nbsp; A typically erudite collection of talks and essays, as smooth as a gimlet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Charles S. Maier [1999]:&nbsp; <em>Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany<\/em>.&nbsp; Princeton University Press.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Meredith Maran (Editor) [2013]:&nbsp; <em>Why We Write<\/em>.&nbsp; Plume.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Marci Shore [2013]:&nbsp; <em>The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe<\/em>.&nbsp; Crown Publishing Group, New York.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Thomas Nagel [2012]:&nbsp; <em>Mind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature is Almost Certainly False<\/em>.&nbsp; Oxford University Press USA<\/strong>.&nbsp; Any book so heavily criticized by Brian Leiter has to be of great value, and this was.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>The photo shows the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, from 1954 home of the Berliner Ensemble.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a sequence of lists of recently-read books: Igor Lukes [2012]: On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague.&nbsp; Oxford University Press.&nbsp;&nbsp; Some comments here. 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