Reading both @McFaul and @andrewrsorkin books, switching between the two. But hearing about @juliaioffe new book and her years of research, it’s now on order. Too many books, not enuf time (thank goodness baseball season if over)!
Michael McFaul
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Nov 3
Nice to see my book right next to @juliaioffe ‘s Motherland @kramerbooks ! Get both.

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1929? Just heard an interview about that book and have put it on my list.
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Here is a bestseller for the women or girls in your life. Great Christmas gift. 90% 4 and 5 star reviews. Story of young girls leaving the Irish Famine of the late 1840s for new lives in Australia.amazon.com/Famine-Orphans-Pa… Very handsome editor, BTW, but I may be biased. .

The Famine Orphans

The girls, 4,000 in all, come from every part of Ireland—from the shores of Galway to the Glens of Ulster and Belfast’s teeming streets—to board ships bound for Australia. All were chosen from...

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I would add the personal account of two Russian journalists who experienced the autocratic descent from the 90's on, losing close friends in the process (and having to flee Russia). A "broken generation." Our Dear Friends in Moscow -Andrei Soldatov & Irina Borogan
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Is this a good time to be putting one's feet up and reading a book?
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I save all my reading material until the off season because I don't know what else to do without baseball.
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Have 2 of the 3. And now will need to get the 3rd...
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Audible.
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So many great books right now!
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Nice… I need to read new books. I got a signed copy of Anne Applebaum’s new one, but I’m reading Orwell’s essays and Hannah Arendt’s On Revolution right now
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Have you read Patrick Radden Keefe’s “Say Nothing”? I hope someone will talk about the resolution to the Troubles in Northern Ireland & how to apply the lessons from that to Middle East peace (& if you even can apply them). amazon.com/Say-Nothing-Murde…

Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland

In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruders, her children clinging to her legs. They never saw her again. Her...

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