Category: Book Notes
These are notes written for the Aptos Men’s Book Club and others about books I have read.
Peril
by Bob Woodward & Robert Costa
October 14, 2021
Disappointed doesn’t quite describe how I feel about this book.
The Idea Factory
by Jon Gertner
September 25, 2021
The monopoly business model allowed the free reign of creative minds to do what interested them in an environment where no ideas were bad ideas.
Talking to Strangers
by Malcolm Gladwell
August 21, 2021
There is no integrative presentation or analysis here, at least none that I could detect.
The Daughters of Yalta
by Catherine Grace Katz
August 11, 2021
The daughters largely provided moral support to their fathers outside the conference hours.
The Bomber Mafia
by Malcolm Gladwell
July 12, 2021
Malcom Gladwell approaches the competing bombing strategies used in WWII with a combination of historical fact, analysis, and irony.
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