Walter

Some good, some bad, and some ugly

Revisado: 04-28-24

the Boomer generating did do many things wrong that have made the world less safe, and less prosperous. but, this is a global problem, not unique to America. the lead pipes they drank tap water from for decades really didn't help.

but he author fixated on one generation OBSESSIVELY, which is EXTREMELY unhelpful.

this entire book is a lost if grievances against boomers in general. not worth your time, imo.

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The Doughboys and Cowboys to the Rescue!

Revisado: 04-28-24

An excellent intricately detailed reminder to the world that DDay was not the first time American troops were forced to fight on European to end political-power posturing that spun out of control into a massive war before anyone knew it.

the First withe war is completely forgotten in America. it is so overshadowed by the next world war, that America has forgotten the only major reason the Germans, French, and Brits even bothered attempting to broker a peace without "FiNaL ViCtOrY", but rather through negotiations.

and yet, at the end of the war, after saving most of Europe from another several years of war (the Russian Revolution itself is strangely not connected to WW1, Historiographically,
because the Western powers made peace, and while the Bosheviks didn't do themselves a SINGLE favor until 1941, they should've been brought into the negotiable, ALONG WITH THE WHITES, to negotiate a FULL end to the war,.

America was given little to no say in the outcome of the Paris Treaty of Versaille negotiations, despite being the only reason the war in the west ended, in the West at least. yet, all pur prophetic warnings went he unheeded by is m practicality every European except for Winston Chirchill, and just 21 years later, involving many of the same figures that fought in WW1, WW2 broke out for more-or-less the sand reasons as the first one, albeit with Hitler as the inky personality truly bent on war, as opposed to the many monarchies in Europe in 1914 jumping excitedly until the war, without even knowing why they were fighting.

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The blunders that led to a war of folly in Vietnam

Revisado: 10-08-23

H.R. McMaster, in his first book, scrutinizes the American decisions and decision-making processes that led to American intervention in Vietnam.

McMaster ultimately concludes that it was the incompetence, and indifference to the outcome, by the POLITICAL leaders of the era, namely LBJ's sidelining of the military leadership, that made America blunder into a war that could not be won.

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excellent discourse on interpersonal communication

Revisado: 10-08-23

interesting book. Gladwell concluded out that if we only knew how to talk to each other better, things could be so much better than they are now.

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Required Reading for All Students of History.

Revisado: 10-05-23

A treatise on the greatest blunder of European Civilization, published in the final year of the 20th century and indeed, the entire 2nd millenium A.D., "The Pity of War" is an indispensable work which those seeking to understand the catastrophe of the Great War, MUST read and understand.

Author Niall Fergusson methodically dispells the most common myths cited about the war and questions whether, as it seemed to those alive at the time, the first European conflagration of the 1900s WAS in fact "inevitable" coming to the conclusion that: "No, war was not *inevitable*, BUT...".

Through his analysis of the biographical, domestic/geo-political, economic, personal sentiment (from the lowliest private to the kings and prime ministers themselves), conduct and the aftermath of WW1, Fergusson concludes that besides the United States, the First World War was an unnecessary catastrophe that left every combatant nation worse off than they had been previous to the war- setting Europe back at least several decades.

As the quintessential historian on the life and work of one Georgian man (Ioseb Djhugashvilli) Stephen Kotkin likes to say, "war is usually a miscalculation", and no more obvious example can be found than the paranoid, capricious, and self-serving calculations made by the European leaders that sleep-walked their armies into the worst war since the fall of Rome in 476 A.D., and important lessons for the present and future are plentiful in this definitive work.

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"The errors that remain are mine alone."

Revisado: 01-13-23

that is what accoubtability looks like. excellent book. very glad I read it. thanks for writing it.

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Death simply... is.

Revisado: 05-02-22

A heartbreaking account of the death of a partner. Grief is healthy, but not easy.

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booo crime is bad bahhhh he lawyer but turmp no go

Revisado: 03-04-22

bad crime man make bad lawyer badder then bad and badder get into shenanigans. hulahoops

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A moving story of loss and love

Revisado: 08-25-19

Gripping from beginning to end, "Maybe You Should Talk to Someone" is a must read for everybody who has feelings. Following the story of a therapist who is blindsided by a breakup and decides she needs therapy, MYSTTS delves into the full breadth of human experience and what it means to live, love and lose in the 21st century.

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