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.When Washington Shut Down Wall Street: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy
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by: William L. Silber

August 24, 2008
In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Remains of the Day, a blue-blood guest unmercifully grills James Stevens, the head butler at an English estate. The pompous guest is trying to demonstrate that uneducated people should not have the vote. "My good man," he asks, "do you suppose the debt situation regarding America is a significant factor in the present low levels of trade? Or...is the abandonment of the gold standard...at the root of the matter?" Stevens, aware that the question is meant only to baffle him, replies that he has no idea. Poor Stevens! Anyone without a degree in international finance would have an equally difficult time answering such an abstruse question. That's why this intriguing business history book by William L. Silber is so worthwhile: ... Read More:
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.Punk Love: A History of Hardcore
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by: Susie J. Horgan

February 02, 2007
A fantastically well put together book, with some beautiful pictures and all round presentation. I would highly recommened this to anyone with an interest in the early 80s DC scene. Money well spent.
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.The Grandissimes: A Novel (Classics)
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by: George Washington Cable

June 29, 1989
A fantastically well put together book, with some beautiful pictures and all round presentation. I would highly recommened this to anyone with an interest in the early 80s DC scene. Money well spent.
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.The Splendor of Silence
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by: Indu Sundaresan

September 18, 2007
This book made me laugh and cry. The author effortlessly weaves historical accuracy into a fairytale about princesses, adding a drop of Indian legend and enchanting detail. The story is set against the horror of WW2 in Burma and northern India and touches on issues of social justice, class disparity, religion, colonialism, race relations and magic. It is beautifully evocative of a lost time and easily related to the present. Read it.
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.Black Leadership in America: From Booker T.Washington to Jesse Jackson (Studies In Modern History)
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by: J. White

October 29, 1990
This book made me laugh and cry. The author effortlessly weaves historical accuracy into a fairytale about princesses, adding a drop of Indian legend and enchanting detail. The story is set against the horror of WW2 in Burma and northern India and touches on issues of social justice, class disparity, religion, colonialism, race relations and magic. It is beautifully evocative of a lost time and easily related to the present. Read it.
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.Miserables, Les (Everyman's Library Classics)
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by: Victor Hugo

May 29, 1998
Not the greatest prediction in history perhaps, but Victor Hugo's monumental Romantic epic still remains one of the best known and most popular works of the nineteenth century. A vast panorama of Parisian life during the first half of that century, Les Miserables seems to contain the author's entire world view and knowledge base, everything but the kitchen sink. Yes, when viewed through twenty-first century eyes it suffers from all the peculiarities associated with novels of that era: twists and turns born out of wildly improbable coincidences, a tendency to sentimentality and melodrama, familiar caricatures (misers, prostitutes, street urchins), odd attachments to unrelated children, and loose ends neatly tied up. But, like War and Peace it is a great sweep of ... Read More:
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.Personal History: Katharine Graham
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by: Katharine Graham

1998-03
Katharine Graham's `Personal History' is a grand and epic memoir that can be read not only as a woman's rise to become editor of one of America's most important newspapers, but also as a history of post-war twentieth century America.
Graham patiently recounts her mixed childhood, in which she enjoyed the riches of an eminent family but was deprived of a truly meaningful relationship. In the next part of the book, she meets a man with whom she would enjoy her most profound relationship - her future husband Phillip Graham. Although their marriage begins well, it ends with her heartbreaking account of his ongoing mental illness which led to his suicide.
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.The Old Curiosity Shop (Everyman's Library Classics)
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by: Charles Dickens

May 25, 1995
Katharine Graham's `Personal History' is a grand and epic memoir that can be read not only as a woman's rise to become editor of one of America's most important newspapers, but also as a history of post-war twentieth century America.
Graham patiently recounts her mixed childhood, in which she enjoyed the riches of an eminent family but was deprived of a truly meaningful relationship. In the next part of the book, she meets a man with whom she would enjoy her most profound relationship - her future husband Phillip Graham. Although their marriage begins well, it ends with her heartbreaking account of his ongoing mental illness which led to his suicide.
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.My Sister's Keeper
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by: Jodi Picoult

February 15, 2005
This book was quite unlike anything else I have read, it is completely gripping and had me close to tears on more than one occasion. The style of writing is brill each chapter is the perspective of a different character. Definitely recommend to anyone.
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.Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude
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by: Robert Baer

2004-05
Akin to Robert Baer's other bestselling work See No Evil, this book is equally insightful and gripping. The subject matter for this work of his, is the complicated, often worrying relationship between successive U.S. administrations, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and its ruling family the house of Al Sa'ud.

Being a former CIA operative who's fluent in Arabic (among other languages), Baer drew on his years of experience having worked in the region, to chart his country's unhealthy appetite for easy access to perceptively cheap Saudi oil. He poignantly reminds us that 15 of the 19 hijackers who perpetrated the 9/11 atrocities where Saudi Nationals. Developing the narrative, articulating thoughts, penning down facts and presenting personal experience from his field operations, ... Read More:
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