Book Haul #4

[The above video is mostly a reading of the text below, with an occasional aside thrown in for good measure as they strike me as relevant.  I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.]

I welcome questions, comments, or concerns about the material contained in this video.

Books discussed include:

Budapest 1900: A History Portrait of a City and Its Culture, John Lukacs

The Years of Lyndon Johnson: Master of the Senate, Robert Caro

The Last Lion, II: Winston Churchill Alone, 1932-1940, William Manchester

A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, Peter Handke

Errand Into the Wilderness, Perry Miller

Mephistopheles, Jeffrey Burton Russell

Gold and Iron: Bismarck, Bleichroder, and the Building of the German Empire, Fritz Stern

Masscult and Midcult: Essays Again the American Grain, Dwight Macdonald

On the Black Hill, Bruce Chatwin

Losing Battles, Eudora Welty

Vathek, William Beckford

The Rings of Saturn, W. G. Sebald

Balzac, Graham Robb

The Balfour Declaration, Jonathan Schneer

Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano, John Tytell

Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School, Adam Kuper

Officers and Gentlemen, Evelyn Waugh

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana, Carlo Emilio Gadda

The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism, Daniel Bell

The Flake Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, Elspeth Huxley

The Marrow of Tradition, Charles W. Chesnutt