Gregory P. Louviere

Insight of Historic Complexity

Revisado: 05-26-24

You made a series of correlations that were extraordinary. Your dedication in this pursuit was monumental.

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Exciting Interview; One of the Best!

Revisado: 09-09-23

My thanks to the author for formulating this book on 15 foods. I appreciated hearing of the book’s content and its conceptual organization explained by the author. So many of the foods were more evocative than others but I appreciated the fun and joy in creating this book. There was a good type of messiness that was used in the more contemporary food selections. But I appreciated the validity of each choice made. In this mix there were a couple of choices that were vague to me such as the Tex -Mex and Korean foods seemed appropriate to the west coast with its East Asian and regional Mexican influences. I say that not because I don’t agree. in Texas, we’re I am, Tex-Mex is considered regional but maybe not American. I grew up with Cajun foods but don’t consider it an American food. But these choices were certainly evocative to keep interest high. It’s a fascinating book, as was the interview. Thank you Anna! Good luck on the next one!

In some ways this was one of Lee’s best interviews. He always brings himself to each interview and this one was spirited and exciting. I is definitely worth the listen for the lively exchanges in the interview.

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Differing Worlds

Revisado: 09-08-23

The world was made by collisions, crashes, divergences and merging that have existed over long distances of time. Simon Winchester has been able to be a witness for us to all these dynamic events that have made the world of knowledge known to us in this book. The only tragedy is that the transformative nature of knowledge is desired by the many for whom it is not available and it is squandered by those who now look to dismiss it.

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A Person of Distain

Revisado: 09-08-23

I don't know if I have differing views that other architects who have read or listened to this book. Throughout my career I have know architects who reviled the buildings of Phillip Johnson. At the same time, I heard few people who equivocated the shallowness person with the shallowness of his work. In the end, I have not know architects who have disliked the person of Phillip Johnson first before disliking his work. Whether intended, this book lead you to despise the buildings he produced because of the life lived by the man who created them.

Earlier in my life, I had admired what he had achieved in those years of the 1970's through late 1990's. Most of my fellow architects however thought his work as elitist and hyperbolic yet his work did always maintained the sense of irony for which it was justified by the sophisticates. So he was not ever on the 'A' list of architects but he had made a big impact on the City of Houston where I resided at that time. His works were like spectacles of showmanship but not architecture in the great sense of the word in which he aspired.

Our author of The Man in the Glass House has revealed much more about the person than I had known. Maybe there were rumors about him that were never proven in the past. Now I cannot find redemption in this person and consequently have relinquished appreciation for his achievements.
After reading this book, I can't separate what he was as a person from the work he produced. It was a difficult journey having travailed this book.

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Malls and their Idiosyncrasies

Revisado: 08-11-23

This is an excellent interview and conversations with Andrea Lange discussing her unique venture into the american mall. Vincent was outstanding in his relevant question and personal experience that was totally engaging. Andrea was remarkably knowledgeable about malls in their inception, their cultural significance that includes their future evolution. My thanks to both of you for this background and an instilled desire to read this book.

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Fascinating Insights of JFK

Revisado: 01-11-23

When I thought no one was in the world who could enlighten the flat personae of JFK, your guest was extraordinary. Thank you greatly for this event. Your acquaintance with your guest brought a range of insights I don’t think we would have heard from another host.

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More Than I Can Say

Revisado: 12-03-22

Mr. Meacham has always found a profound voice from which to speak about conflict, calamity and calm in a world that does not fully understand this voice. My hope is that everyone reading or hearing this book can provoke themselves to understand that the mark of history rests upon us all. In the book about Abraham Lincoln, that that some inspired individuals readily place this yoke of relevance upon themselves. And more rare are those few people who can actual surpass this effort to see themselves as nothing less than others and never greater but clearly moral. The book transcends place and time to bear witness to the moral universe that A. Lincoln portrayed through the conditions through which he is unsurpassed.

Than you Mr. Meacham for this superlative work.

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Extraordinary!

Revisado: 11-26-22

I know nothing about haute cuisine of the restaurant world but this book transformed an understanding that was vacant in my life. Mr. Kuh has done a tremendous kindness and gift to our country in the narrative he aligns.

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Scoring Political Points

Revisado: 03-02-21

To read this book you will need to alter your complete understanding of the circumstances that precipitate and developed into the American Depression of the 1930’s. The political point of this book is to prove that Herbert Hoover was steps away from solving the financial ills of the impending economic crisis prior to his election defeat. Consequently, it was Franklin Roosevelt’s policies that expanded the crisis into a full depression. That in essence is the thesis which he poses.

It is not the thesis that is unsatisfying but his proof is lacking only because it’s basis is to prove that any form of government intervention is disastrous. The book almost teeters on the edge of being a conspiracy theory rather than a historical work.

My intention in writing this review, is not to admonish the thesis but to share with you the book lacks a factual and theoretical foundation to provide its thesis. Maybe I am overwrought with ALT-everything but, I felt it was like political target practice rather a critical work of historical merit.

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Amazing and Profound

Revisado: 02-25-18

To let you know that have read this when it came out. I really enjoyed the book and appreciate the depth of momentous study. Unlike many such books that incur the degree of research alongside the content. This book went far beyond the fundamental historical narrative. Now, to listen to the book has transformed it. Hearing it allows your mind to engage and reflect while appreciating the book for the tickets of it’s content.
This by far is one of the best nonfiction work of the past 10 years. Enjoy the experience.

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