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American History December '09 Reading

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1jztemple
Dez. 22, 2009, 12:26 pm

Wow, can't believe no one has started this thread till now. Just finished reading Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room by Michael K. Bohn. Interesting reading from a historic point of view and also as insight as to how this iconic but rather little understood part of the executive branch really works. Not a tell-all book or an exposé, it still does muckrake a bit, but nothing Kitty Kelly would appreciate.

2AnnaClaire
Dez. 22, 2009, 12:52 pm

Wow, that is something. How can nobody have started the December thread until almost Christmas?!

I'm mostly done reading Dearest Friend, and I finished The Day Wall Street Exploded a week or so into the month.

3jztemple
Dez. 22, 2009, 7:37 pm

>2 AnnaClaire: I see over on Amazon a mix of reviews for The Day Wall Street Exploded. One review even referred to it as a novel. Your opinion?

4Billhere
Bearbeitet: Dez. 23, 2009, 9:28 am

Read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick earlier this month. About half way through Undaunted Courage.

5AnnaClaire
Dez. 23, 2009, 9:35 am

>3 jztemple:
Not a novel -- certainly it read less like one than, say, Gangs of New York -- but I'd say it would be readable for those accustomed to novels.