Because I’ve abandoned Twitter, this is the best place for this: your reference to KJ-52 during this week’s Fullcast was both the best topper to the “Dabo’s CD changer” bit and an amazing way to (somehow) get me more excited for the upcoming book.
If you’re dropping a reference like that in public, I cannot wait to see - and be haunted by? - everything from my 2000s teenage years in the book.
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick. I would say it was mixed...the pre-1917 stuff is a great summary of the conditions preceding the revolution that enlightened me on a number of things. Post-1917 was less informative and the liberal schoolmarm tone (not an indictment of her specifically but more of western historians in general) became distracting.
Because I’ve abandoned Twitter, this is the best place for this: your reference to KJ-52 during this week’s Fullcast was both the best topper to the “Dabo’s CD changer” bit and an amazing way to (somehow) get me more excited for the upcoming book.
If you’re dropping a reference like that in public, I cannot wait to see - and be haunted by? - everything from my 2000s teenage years in the book.
Thank you!! And yes, KJ-52 is mentioned in the book on the same page as Rackets & Drapes, Out of Eden, and Max Lucado.
Literally just finished reading a book on the Russian Revolution, so congrats on shaming specifically me into finally signing up for the mailing list
Which book and how was it?
The Russian Revolution by Sheila Fitzpatrick. I would say it was mixed...the pre-1917 stuff is a great summary of the conditions preceding the revolution that enlightened me on a number of things. Post-1917 was less informative and the liberal schoolmarm tone (not an indictment of her specifically but more of western historians in general) became distracting.
I’m glad you left the middle of the day open, just on the off-chance that Mizzou/UGA gets weird. (Reigning cats and dawgs?)