Another book Ms Gessen did NOT HAVE to read

[Mark Kohut]

No, I am not giving her a hard time...Jochen cited her....Her review is a
smart one, but it was irrelevant for me since I had wanted to
read the book and did before that review....

I have her NBA-winning book to get to as well...

On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 3:42 PM, Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Are you really giving Gessen a hard time for what she said about the Wolff
> book? Do you think it was well written?
>
> And for a less favorable view of Democracy in Chains, see
> http://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-
> farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship.
>
> In the interest of transparency, I have not read either the Wolff or
> Maclean books, but I have read enough of Gessen, Farrell and Teles to have
> respect for their work.
>
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 12:35 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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