“I may be crazy, but I’m not stupid,” goes the famous punch line of a now forgotten joke. Jacob Heilbrunn’s They Knew They Were Right: The Rise of the Neocons suffers from the opposite malady.
“An Ayn Rand novel written by a socialist” was my assessment of Theodore Dreiser’s The Financier. That description applies even more forcefully to Dreiser’s sequel, The Titan.
I am going to break one of my own rules here. I spent much of the month of May listening to Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables as my audiobook. 60 hours — that’s a lot of workouts!
Before I read Gene Smith’s biography of John Pershing, Until the Last Trumpet Sounds, I had no idea that America’s one and only six-star general was such a babe magnet!