Book Review: The Phoenix Land
From the Amazon listing: This fascinating memoir, written on the heals of Banffy's famous Transylvanian Trilogy, describes life in the post-World War I kingdom of Hungary. Banffy brilliantly describes both…
Book Review: Dynastic, Bombastic, Fantastic
From the early 1900s when baseball was truly America's Game, Major League Baseball, as had all major professional sports in the United States, has had its share of truly bad…
Book Review: The Transylvania Trilogy
The Transylvania Trilogy, or Erdélyi történet in Hungarian, is, at its essence, a romance novel: boy (Bálint Abády) grows up with girl (Adrienne Uzdy); girl enters loveless marriage; boy expresses…
Book Review: Swastika Night
Swastika Night is yet another World War II alternative history where the Axis Powers - Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire - defeat the Allies and now occupy the defeated…
Book Review #4
Jill Eicher's book Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans At War tells the post-World War I battles between the United States and its allies - primarily the…
Scary Times, Predicted
I'm still working my way through Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich, in which he gives a riveting account of Germany's inter-war history, from World…
Book Review #3
In the translated book Planning in the USSR by I.A. Yevenko, the communist hyperbole and delusion begins immediately with the Author's Notes on page 5: The system of socialist planned…
Book Review #2
A Brief History of Freemasons: the true story of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society: From the back cover: An illuminating and unbiased history of this most enigmatic secret society.…
Random Learnings #65
Reading the otherwise underwhelming The Freemasons: The True Story of the World's Most Powerful Secret Society by Jasper Ridley, the author uses the folk tale Cinderella when discussing the French…
New York City Love Letter
Sunday, my wife and I introduced a Connecticut friend to the main branch of the New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue. Of course, one must see the Rose Main…