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The Puppy Bowl posted:Someone asked USpol the 3 books that most influenced their political outlook, it's led to some great recommendations. It's actually pretty crap. Lots of dubious statistics.
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What's the consensus about Cannadine's Ornamentalism?
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Oct 25, 2016 18:40
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Silver2195 posted:It's actually pretty crap. Lots of dubious statistics. It's shocking that USPOL would recommend a book that's wrong about everything. Just shocking.
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Oct 25, 2016 18:44
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Silver2195 posted:It's actually pretty crap. Lots of dubious statistics. Pinker indeed has a track record of cherrypicking studies - Blank Slate is pretty much solely based on studies about separated twins, but he casually glosses over the fact that they weren't separated at birth necessarily. That said, his books are somewhat entertaining, as long as you take them with a heavy grain of salt.
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And speaking of an actual recommendation - just finished Why the West Rules.. For Now by Ian Morris. Excellent overview of history of the West diverged from the East, if somewhat superficial given the scope of the book. It's very readable as well, which can't be always said for history books. He combines several fields together to create a "social development index" which he uses to track and explain how the divergence happened.
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Oct 25, 2016 19:12
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Steven Pinker has a long and distinguished career of getting everything wrong
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The Puppy Bowl posted:the 3 books that most influenced their political outlook Nixon Agonistes (great description of the end of liberalism) Illuminatus! (runner up for this spot was Catch 22) The Brothers Karamazov (George W. Bush's favorite book)
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Hey, I had this question a couple of days ago in USPol and forgot to ask here: any recommendations on FBI post-Hoover history or just the whole thing à la Legacy of Ashes?
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stone cold posted:Hey, I had this question a couple of days ago in USPol and forgot to ask here: any recommendations on FBI post-Hoover history or just the whole thing à la Legacy of Ashes? From the very same guy who wrote Legacy of Ashes https://www.amazon.com/Enemies-History-FBI-Tim-Weiner/dp/0812979230 I recommend :-)
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I'm looking for a book on Malcolm X. Is there a standard book you people can recommend? Not looking for his autobiography or speeches etc., I'm more interested in a historical investigation.
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Oct 31, 2016 23:45
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sumie posted:From the very same guy who wrote Legacy of Ashes Ah, doy, that was dumb of me, I should've probably checked his bibliography haha. Thank you so much, though~!
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Do any read along threads still exist / is there interest in doing some new ones?
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sumie posted:From the very same guy who wrote Legacy of Ashes Neither Legacy of Ashes nor Enemies are considered very good by historians, just FYI. Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones is a respected historian of the field who wrote a book on the FBI, though I haven't personally read it. Possibly less exciting, but also less sensationalist and better founded. If you want a more thorough look at books on the FBI, this chapter in a book is worth reading: https://books.google.com/books?id=jUqrBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA129&ots=ImjkwP5wBU&dq=historiography%20fbi&pg=PA129#v=onepage&q&f=false Academician Nomad fucked around with this message at 23:54 on Dec 1, 2016 |
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Dec 1, 2016 23:51
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I'm going political in next month's book barn book of the month if anyone here wants in: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3799881
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Academician Nomad posted:Neither Legacy of Ashes nor Enemies are considered very good by historians, just FYI. Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones is a respected historian of the field who wrote a book on the FBI, though I haven't personally read it. Possibly less exciting, but also less sensationalist and better founded. Thanks, I'll definitely check that out. I read CIA's less-than-favourable review of Legacy of Ashes, but I've generally heard and read good things, including in reddit AskHistorians which is generally pretty okay resource, but it's always hard to tell because everyone kinda upvotes what they want to upvote.
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sumie posted:Thanks, I'll definitely check that out. I read CIA's less-than-favourable review of Legacy of Ashes, but I've generally heard and read good things, including in reddit AskHistorians which is generally pretty okay resource, but it's always hard to tell because everyone kinda upvotes what they want to upvote. In general the best historians for history of espionage/intelligence, in no order and probably missing quite a few, are: James Bamford Tim Naftali Haynes and Klehr Jeffrey Richelson Christopher Andrew Rhodri Jeffrey-Jones maybe Kristie Macrakis
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Is Ghost Wars worth checking out? I see it recommended frequently.
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If I wanted to get angry at Ronald Reagan what's a good book for that?
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Dimebags Brain posted:If I wanted to get angry at Ronald Reagan what's a good book for that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_I_Want_to_Fuck_Ronald_Reagan
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