Category: Book Notes

These are notes written for the Aptos Men’s Book Club and others about books I have read.

Brother and Sister
by Diane Keaton

The book is not what the critics say it is.

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
by Jason Stanley

Jason Stanley uses the tools of academic philosophy to bring the horror of fascism into focus.

Red Notice:
A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
by Bill Browder

The mysterious “Magnitsky Act” explained in 380 pages of real life intrigue.

Supreme Inequality:
The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America

by Adam Cohen

This is the most important book written about the modern Supreme Court.

1944
by Jay Winik

Winik’s telling of the most fateful year of the war weaves many pieces of the story into a great book.