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June 20
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Ethan
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Here is New York (Hardcover)
by E.B. White
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Ethan said:
"There's a snippet of this essay/book quoted on the subways right now. Instead, the Port Authority should just hand it out to incoming traffic at the airports and bridges. The last three pages almost knocked me unconscious.
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June 18
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Ethan
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (Paperback)
by Truman Capote
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Ethan said:
"Didn't expect to like this as much as I did. Capote can string a sentence together with the best of them, though. I thought he might be a one hit wonder with In Cold Blood, which was genius as well as thematically and stylistically unlike anything he...more
Didn't expect to like this as much as I did. Capote can string a sentence together with the best of them, though. I thought he might be a one hit wonder with In Cold Blood, which was genius as well as thematically and stylistically unlike anything he had done before. So I figured his early stuff, before he wrote such a transformative and career culminating masterpiece, wouldn't be on the same level; plus the subject matter was not my cup of tea. But now I understand why he was already a literary superstar before In Cold Blood. The man could flat out write....less
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June 08
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Ethan
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Ethan
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City (Paperback)
by Jonathan Mahler
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Ethan said:
"Might've suffered from the expectation game. I liked it well enough -- but compared to all the hype, I didn't see what the big deal was about.
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June 02
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Ethan
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to:
Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World (Paperback)
by Walter Russell Mead, Richard C. Leone
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Ethan said:
""God has a special providence for fools, drunks, and the United States of America."
-- Otto Von Bismarck
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May 19
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Ethan
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to:
American Foreign Policy: The Dynamics of Choice in the 21st Century, Third Edition (Paperback)
by Bruce W. Jentleson
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Ethan
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American Trade Politics, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by I. M. Destler
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Ethan
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American Foreign Policy: Theoretical Essays (5th Edition)
by G. John Ikenberry
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Ethan
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Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (2nd Edition)
by Graham T. Allison, Philip Zelikow
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