This book consists of recorded conversations on music by two music appreciators, yet neither one is a musician. Both men happen to be on the genius level. Although neither has ever played an instrument, they have a deep understanding of classical music—how it should sound, its history, how a non...
Strangers in Their Own Land; Anger and Mourning on the American Right, A Journey to the Heart of the Political Divide, by Arlie Russell Hochschild, The New Press 2016
This exceptionally well-written book addresses the political paradox that Democrats were puzzling...
The autobiography is thoroughly interesting and easy to read, devoid of the superficiality or narcissism that afflicts most autobiographies. This is the history of spirit whose journey through the artistic imagination is rooted in an international humanitarian ethic. Unlike Béla Bartók, the...
Do we need another book to add to the already extensive library devoted to the Iraq War? This one adds first-hand testimony from a CIA analyst whose brief was Saddam Hussein, the principal target of a war that began in 2003 and may not yet be over some 14 years later.
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