Milwaukee radio station 620am WTMJ broadcast a segment regarding ebooks last week. I finally got around to blogging about it today. The segment was titled: Will printed books remain relevant in the future? Book/library aficionado/blogger Paul Everett Nelson joins WAN at 4:34pm. While the discussion was simple and well targeted to their audience there is certainly more […]
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Chuck Colson died Saturday. I think he will be remember more for his post Watergate actions than the Un-American acts he managed in Nixon’s White House. Regrettably today’s short attention span media will focus on the last years of his life rather than painfully share again with America the lessons of those in control of […]
After reading 3,500ish pages I reached a breaking point. I set aside the remaining volumes of the Pentagon Papers and began reading Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War. Much to my surprise this book has been very highly recommended. As I have been reading each volume of the Pentagon Papers it has become quite clear that […]
Tim Weiner wrote an extraordinary book Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA. He traced the origin back to World War II and movements by former Office of Strategic Services Officers to run the new agency in a post war world. Weiner’s research (over 50,000 documents and interviews with agents and over a dozen CIA […]
Watching this documentary about Daniel Ellsberg reminded me of his rather extraordinary life that has not yet stopped. With the recent WikiLeaks sensation its worth reminding America how powerful documents can change people and governments. I read Ellsberg’s book Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers back in 2006 (review here) and realize […]