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Brett’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at Brett’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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Brett Alan Williams
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The Father: America Leaves the American Century (The Father Trilogy, #1)
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The Worst of Things: America in the 21st Century (The Father Trilogy, #2)
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August 23, 2024: Has it been long enough to allow honesty about the assassination attempt on Trump?
When I left with my pups for a wilderness excursion, Biden’s debate meltdown made Trump’s dictatorship appear almost a certainty. Then Trump’s post-gunshot photograph (online “For just $29.99!”) and his consequent “meeting with God” made his kleptocracy a sure thing. The Founder’s experiment in self-governance was about to end at 249 years.
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| A well-known Harvard historian and Rhodes Scholar as a kid, author Crane Brinton (1898-1968) wrote several popular books, including Ideas and Men, from which this book is derived as the original’s second half. Copyright 1953 and 50 cents at the time, ...more | |
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In the Garden Behind the Moon: A Memoir of Loss, Myth, and Magic:
"Very honored to have been able to narrate this incredible memoir. "
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| This book provides a good summary of the lie factories that deny manmade global warming—an industry worth billions of dollars to Big Fossil led by Big Oil. We find Big Oil adopted the magnificently successful Tobacco Strategy developed by Chicago’s H ...more | |
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This lecture series by late professor Andrew Fix provides a large number of “Aha” moments. While the transformation from Medieval to Modern mind gets good coverage, the emphasis is on transformation to the modern state. We start with what motivated t ...more |
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| This series of 24 lectures by adventurer and author Eamonn Gearon of Johns Hopkins University is a real eye opener in how far ahead the nations of Islam were to those in Europe in terms of inventions, economics, literature, mathematics, and what soun ...more | |
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Man in the Modern Age (Routledge Revivals):
"Hard going and less compelling than I had anticipated. That I put it down in 2012 and didn't remember to pick it up again until four years later tells its own story.
Explores some of the same territory as Erich Fromm and Ernest Becker - what do we do" Read more of this review » |
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“It’s more than money now, Candice. It’s a memory maker…Hold this penny tight, close your eyes, and no matter where you are or when, you’ll find yourself back here with me in this very spot.”
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― The Father
“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
― The Father
― The Father
“Joseph said, ‘Beware of luxury and too much comfort, John. Avoid crowds and their approval. These things corrupt character. Doing makes a man, not display.”
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― The Father
“I asked him, ‘If I had died when I fell from that tree, would I wake up in the Kingdom, freed, like they say?’ And do you know what he told me, Miss Pancake? He said, ‘The Kingdom of the Father is upon the land, and men do not see it.”
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― The Father
“If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?”
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“Every once in awhile the human race pauses in the job of botching its affairs and redeems itself by a noble work of the intellect.”
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“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another man's alienation. Readiness to become over-involved is a form of tyranny practiced by children, prima donnas and lords, placing feelings above moral rules that should have made society safe for interaction.”
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