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Sep

19

2019

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Warhead: The True Story of One Teen Who Almost Saved the World by Jeff Henigson

After being diagnosed with brain cancer as a teen, Seattle writer Jeff Henigson made an unconventional Starlight Children’s Foundation wish. He wanted to (and did) travel to Moscow to talk with Gorbachev about nuclear disarmament. But this memoir is less about cancer and the Cold War than it is about surviving high school and searching …

Feb

20

2019

The Fox

The Fox by Frederick Forsyth

Thank you, Frederick Forsyth, for writing The Fox. Thank you G.P. Putnam’s Sons for publishing it. The 21st century has seen the birth of a new type warfare– cyberwarfare. Mr. Forsyth has produced a book whose plot seems to be ripped from major news headlines (not “fake news!”). Among the major characters is Sir Adrian Weston, retired …

Jun

28

2018

Road to Unfreedom

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America by Timothy Snyder

Perhaps you read Snyder’s bracing pamphlet, On Tyranny (or the Facebook post it was based on)—from its title, I had imagined this new, much larger book as an expansion of those ideas, but, while it’s written in the same level-headed-but-urgent tone (which Snyder’s voice for the audiobook perfectly represents), it’s doing something related but different, focusing less …

Jun

26

2017

Putin Country

Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia by Peter Pomerantsev & Putin Country: A Journey into the Real Russia by Anne Garrels

Russia is back on the front pages and I just finished two books that are must-reads for anyone who wants to get a clearer idea of just what in the world we’re up against. Read together, they give a timely recap of the past few decades and a bracing close-up of the current state of …

Mar

2

2017

A Very Expensive Poison

A Very Expensive Poison by Luke Harding

The fall of the Soviet Union left a power vacuum in which organized crime and former KGB agents coalesced in the newly capitalist state. The 2006 London assassination by poison of dissident Alexander Litivinenko served as a lethal threat to Russians who would defy the kleptocratic state and also displayed the willingness of some Western …

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