my reading list

The good news is I have finished Richard Hass’s The World. The bad news is that I have started his previous book A World in Disarray. This one is more or less focused on foreign affairs.

After I have completed the World, I was at an unease. I have finished the book, but the carving for reading, for more, remains. I briefly read Peril. But quickly realized that it is more or less a vent of the Trump administration. At the end of “where to go for more” section of the book, I found “immodestly” A World in Disarray. So why not give it a go?

The tone, pace and style is familiar and so are some materials. It served as warm up and continuation of the world. I am enjoying it and learnt a lot from it. I have so far completed 25%.

More than once Richard has mentioned Henry. Henry must be some heavyweight as he has been honorably mentioned a knowledgable man. Henry is indeed an important man during the cold war. His book on China could be a must read about China. That is the next book in my reading list.

My reading list should have ended here. But it does not. Thanks to J. Bradford Delong’s The Strange Death of Conservative America. From here, I have learnt more books. The first one is Geoffrey Kabaservice’s Rule and Ruin. It is about the history of modern America. I haven’t read it so I could be wrong. The second one is Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die. Democracies have died? Interesting. That deserves a closer look. Last but not least George Dangerfield’s The strange death of Liberal England, where the rubric of the article comes from.

OK, four books now. It should really stop - for now.