Another book Ms Gessen did NOT HAVE to read

[Mark Kohut]

I will trumpet another book, mentioned on THIS list already, that I know
the so-smart Ms Gessen LOVES, not disses.

When she won the National Book Award last November, she said when getting
up to accept the award that she had no
words prepared because she was "rooting for another book".

That book wa*s DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS by Nancy Maclean, *a work of profound
historical originality and some of the deepest truths about influences on
the American polity
and the whole world; influences who are this book [Bannon] and who are in
this book [Mercers; Koch] ..*and a book to use to fight with and act with,*
which some of us are doing.......

So, in this way it was the unofficial runner-up book for the NBA and a book
you should read at least once, I say,-- twice, taking notes is
better--before you read *Fire & Fury , *I would suggest if asked.

On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 11:22 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I guess Gessen has also read it. But then, she had to.
>
> I think that ... book is destined to be a bestseller for psychological
> reasons. In your country. I hope it bombs here.
>
> 2018-01-16 17:13 GMT+01:00 Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>:
>
>> Well, the opening recreation of the meeting between Bannon and Ailes WAS
>> quite funny.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 8:10 AM, Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Oh yes, sometimes I'm capable of irony, too.
>>>
>>> Of course you know that I was referring to that other ... book:
>>>
>>> "The President of the United States is a deranged liar who surrounds
>>> himself with sycophants. He is also functionally illiterate and
>>> intellectually unsound. He is manifestly unfit for the job
>>> <https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/15/the-increasing-unfitness-of-donald-trump>.
>>> Who knew? Everybody did.
>>>
>>> So why has a poorly written book containing this information, padded
>>> with much tedious detail, become an overnight sensation, a runaway
>>> best-seller, and the topic of every other political column, podcast, and
>>> dinner conversation? It seems we are in bigger trouble with reality
>>> perception than we might have realized."
>>>
>>> https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/fire-and-fury-
>>> is-a-book-all-too-worthy-of-the-president
>>>
>>
>>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20180118/ba6e6420/attachment.html>