[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.]
Books discussed include:
The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, H. W. Brands
The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Paul Guyer
The Cambridge Companion to Kant, ed. Jonathan Barnes
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Europe, Hayden White
Angels Fear: Towards an Epistemology of the Sacred, Bateson & Bateson
The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities, Richard Sennett
The Successor, Ismail Kadare
Libra, Don DeLillo
Renaissance Diplomacy, Garrett Mattingly
The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides
Mules and Men, Zora Neale Hurston
Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir
The Whole World is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left, Todd Gitlin
Habits of the Heart, Bellah, Madsen, Sullivan, Swidler, & Tipton
Generation: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unraveled the Secrets of Sex, Life, and Growth, Matthew Cobb
Faustus: The Life and Times of A Renaissance Magician, Leo Ruickbie
God's Chinese Children: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xuiquan, Jonathan D. Spence
A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present, Anderson & Zinsser
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