by Richard Subber | Aug 8, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, Democracy, History, Politics, Power and inequality
we need love, and we need trust…
Book review:
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
by Martin Wolf
New York: Penguin, 2023
474 pages
Wolf examines the problem in plain language: the imperatives and the expectations of democratic government both complement and conflict with the pursuit of personal and corporate success in a capitalist world.
His arguments and considerations are a lot more nuanced than that. You can learn to think in new ways about the despairing failures that put our society at risk.
The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism emphasizes one key point: in both the democratic and capitalist frames of reference, we need to be able to trust our leaders and the folks whose personal interests are at variance with those of the rest of the members of our society.
Aye, there’s the rub.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: An Empire Divided
King George and his ministers
wanted the Caribbean sugar islands
more than they wanted the 13 colonies…
by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Aug 6, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry
The Book of Days
The dawn’s early light can be pleasure enough for the whole day.
There are words enough to tell the story of “the temptation of day to come.”
It is my delight to write some of them for your delectation.
Vigil
In the splendid pause of dusk,
the lingering moment
of the glows
of the melted sun,
I pause on the damp sand,
I carry quiet wine
to a smooth place
above the high tide line,
and I feel the joy of day,
and the large sorrow of night,
and I will wait for early light.
January 12, 2021
My poem “Vigil” was published in my sixth collection of 73 poems, Above all: Poems of dawn and more.
You can buy it on Amazon (paperback and Kindle),
or get it free in Kindle Unlimited (search for “Richard Carl Subber”).
Inspired by “Taking Turns” by Jeanie Greensfelder, as published January 11, 2021, by poetryfoundation.org
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Home Team: Poems About Baseball (book review)
Edwin Romond hits another homer…
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In other words: Poems for your eyes and ears with 64 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Aug 3, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, Joys of reading
a storytelling style…
Book review:
A Gentleman in Moscow
by Amor Towles (b1964)\
New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, Inc., 2016
462 pages
A Gentleman in Moscow has an almost simplistic plot line: a nobleman is condemned to perpetual house arrest, living in an attic room in a fine hotel in Moscow in the 1920s.
What Towles brings to the party is an almost casual storytelling style embedded in a fecundity of warmly engaging words and people.
It’s simply true that I was drawn to continue reading about Count Alexander Rostov and Nina.
You can imagine how the story ends. I could.
Caveat: Towles didn’t need 462 pages to tell this story in the best way.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
“Boil up” and other good manners…
The “Hobo Ethical Code” is worth a quick read.
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My first name was rain: A dreamery of poems with 53 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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by Richard Subber | Aug 1, 2023 | Reflections, Tidbits
When you’re not too sure…
“Confusion is a symptom of learning.”
I read that somewhere recently…
Them’s words to live by.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
“…an era of corruption in High Places…”
Old Abe got it right….
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
and free in Kindle Unlimited, search Amazon for “Richard Carl Subber”
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