{"id":9517,"date":"2017-01-06T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T16:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=9517"},"modified":"2021-12-28T16:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T16:43:26","slug":"recent-reading-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/recent-reading-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Reading 12"},"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. The books are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recently-read book at the top.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Edward Fulbrook [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Narrative Fixation in Economics<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; College Publications.<\/li>\n<li>Pamela Vass [2016]:&nbsp; <em>The Power of Three:&nbsp; Thomas Fowler, Devon&#8217;s Forgotten Genius<\/em>. UK: Boundstone Books.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Babbage [1835]:&nbsp; <em>On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; Charles Knight.<\/li>\n<li>Timothy James Burke [1996]:&nbsp; <em>Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women:&nbsp; Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; Duke University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Petina Gappah [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Rotten Row<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; Faber &amp; Faber.<\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li>David Wootton [2015]: <em>The Invention of Science:&nbsp; A New History of the Scientific Revolution. UK<\/em>:&nbsp; Penguin.<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Wechsberg [1969]:&nbsp; <em>The Voices<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; Doubleday.<\/li>\n<li>Karl Marton [2016]:&nbsp; <em>True Believer:&nbsp; Stalin&#8217;s Last American Spy<\/em>. Simon &amp; Schuster.<\/li>\n<li>David Coltart [2016]: <em>The Struggle Continues<\/em>. Zimbabwe: Jacana Media.<\/li>\n<li>Yudhijit Bhattacharjee [2016]:&nbsp; <em>The Spy who couldn&#8217;t Spell:&nbsp; A Dyslexic Traitor, an Unbreakable Code, and the FBI&#8217;s Hunt for America&#8217;s Stolen Secrets<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; Berkley.<\/li>\n<li>Barrie Cassidy [2016]:&nbsp; <em>The Party Thieves: The Real Story of the 2010 Election<\/em>.&nbsp; Australia:&nbsp; Melbourne University Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Martin Pearce [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Spymaster:&nbsp; The Life of Britain&#8217;s Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield<\/em>. Transworld Digital.<\/li>\n<li>Andrew P Street [2016]:&nbsp; <em>The Curious Story of Malcolm Turnbull, the Incredible Shrinking Man in the Top Hat<\/em>. Australia: Allen &amp; Unwin.<\/li>\n<li>Graham Freudenberg [1977]:&nbsp; <em>A Certain Grandeur:&nbsp; Gough Whitlam&#8217;s Life in Politics<\/em>.&nbsp; Australia:Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Tom Bower [1995]:&nbsp; <em>The Perfect English Spy:&nbsp; Sir Dick White and the Secret War, 1935-90<\/em>. UK: William Heinemann.<\/li>\n<li>David Bohm [2013]:&nbsp; <em>On Dialogue<\/em>. UK: Routledge<\/li>\n<li>Ben Kiernan [1986]:&nbsp; <em>Burchett: Reporting the Other Side of the World<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; Quartet Books.<\/li>\n<li>Wilfred Burchett [1969]:&nbsp; <em>Passport: An Autobiography<\/em>.&nbsp; Australia:&nbsp; Thomas Nelson.<\/li>\n<li>Robert Harris [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Conclave<\/em>.&nbsp; Cornerstone Digital.<\/li>\n<li>C. A. E. Moberly [1911]:&nbsp; <em>Dulce Domun. George Moberly, His Family and Friends<\/em>.&nbsp; UK: John Murray.<\/li>\n<li>Lucille Iremonger [1957]:&nbsp; <em>The Ghosts of Versailles:&nbsp; Miss Moberly and Miss Jourdain and their Adventure<\/em>.&nbsp; UK:&nbsp; Faber &amp; Faber.<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Hollis [1958]: <em>Along the Road to Frome<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; George G. Harrap.<\/li>\n<li>Ed Balls [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Speaking Out: Lessons in Life and Politics<\/em>. Cornerstone Digital.<\/li>\n<li>Thomas Rid [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Rise of the Machines: The Lost History of Cybernetics<\/em>.&nbsp; UK: Scribe.<\/li>\n<li>Joshua Rubenstein [2016]:&nbsp; <em>The Last Days of Stalin<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; Yale University Press.<\/li>\n<li>Randolph Vigne [1997]:&nbsp; <em>Liberals and Apartheid: A History of the Liberal Party of South Africa, 1953-68<\/em>. UK:&nbsp; Palgrave Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>Frank Dikotter [2016]: <em>The Cultural Revolution: A People&#8217;s History, 1862-1976<\/em>.&nbsp; UK:&nbsp; Bloomsbury Publishing.<\/li>\n<li>Lafcadio Hearn [1904]:&nbsp; <em>Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation<\/em>.&nbsp; NY, USA: Macmillan.<\/li>\n<li>C. B. George [2015]:&nbsp; The Death of Rex Nhongo. Riverrun.<\/li>\n<li>Hannes Wessels [2010]:&nbsp; <em>PK van der Byl:&nbsp; African Statesman<\/em>. South Africa: 30 Degrees South Publishers.<\/li>\n<li>Alexander Nehamas [2016]:&nbsp; <em>On Friendship<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; Basic Books.<\/li>\n<li>Larry Tye [016]:&nbsp; <em>Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon<\/em>.&nbsp; USA:&nbsp; Random House.<\/li>\n<li>Charles Cumming [2016]: <em>A Divided Spy<\/em>. USA:&nbsp; HarperCollins.<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Mazur [2016]:&nbsp; <em>Fluke<\/em>.&nbsp; Oneworld Publications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest in a sequence of lists of recently-read books. The books are listed in reverse chronological order, with the most recently-read book at the top. Edward Fulbrook [2016]:&nbsp; Narrative Fixation in Economics. UK:&nbsp; College Publications. Pamela Vass [2016]:&nbsp; The Power of Three:&nbsp; Thomas Fowler, Devon&#8217;s Forgotten Genius. UK: Boundstone Books. Charles Babbage [1835]:&nbsp; On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,12,26,35,38,44,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-argumentation","category-books","category-communism","category-fiction","category-history","category-intelligence-and-espionage","category-literature","category-recent-reading","p1","y2017","m01","d06","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9517\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}