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Joseph’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Joseph’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Joseph Stieb
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in Athens, GA
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July 2011
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The Regime Change Consensus: Iraq in American Politics, 1990-2003
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Joseph Stieb
voted for
We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution
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Readers' Favorite History & Biography
in the
Opening Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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Joseph Stieb
voted for
Abundance
as
Readers' Favorite Nonfiction
in the
Opening Round
of the
2025 Goodreads Choice Awards.
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| A tremendous and well-argued study of the core dynamics of the end of World War II. RF uses a wide variety of sources to assess what US and Japanese leaders knew, perceived, believed, and planned for in the last year of the war. He focuses like a las ...more | |
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| This is good for getting a comprehensive grasp on major political, cultural, and economic trends in Europe since the 1950s. However, it isn't as compelling as Kershaw's more specific and archive-based research on the Nazis and World War II. I also fo ...more | |
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| Quite enjoyed this; takes very little time to read, and it's a striking defense of individual conscience and the importance of law. Has some very clever, quasi-Shakespearean devices. However, it probably pops more on stage. ...more | |
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| I'm reviewing this formally for a different publication, but I'll say real quick that this is an excellent account of an important post-Cold War exercise in humanitarian intervention and nation building which corrected many of my misunderstandings of ...more | |
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| A very cute and endearing young adult novel, full of fundamentally good people. It's a sweet refresher of a story in a dark period of history. I will say that the writing and the character of Anne were a little too effusive for me (Anne seems almost ...more | |
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| A clever, interesting satire, well worth reading over a century after it was published. Gilman tells a simple fable of 3 male explorers who stumble upon a mountain nation populated entirely by women, who have learned to procreate asexually and who li ...more | |
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| Profoundly mediocre book. The story doesn't really cohere, the characters are two-dimensional at best, and I found it to be oddly stereotyped. This was the kind of book, in its depiction of black people in rough inner-city neighborhoods, might be con ...more | |
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| A one-of-a-kind book, which is mostly a compliment. This book has some genuinely, existentially terrifying aspects, especially the core concept of a house that contains a fathomless labyrinth that draws people in and makes them crazy (while also shif ...more | |
“What really has expanded is not so much a circle of empathy as a circle of rights—a commitment that other living things, no matter how distant or dissimilar, be safe from harm and exploitation. Empathy has surely been historically important in setting off epiphanies of concern for members of overlooked groups. But the epiphanies are not enough. For empathy to matter, it must goad changes in policies and norms that determine how the people in those groups are treated. At these critical moments, a newfound sensitivity to the human costs of a practice may tip the decisions of elites and the conventional wisdom of the masses. But as we shall see in the section on reason, abstract moral argumentation is also necessary to overcome the built-in strictures on empathy. The ultimate goal should be policies and norms that become second nature”
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
― The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
