by Richard Subber | Oct 3, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, World history
a nightmare in slow motion
Book review:
Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by William Manchester (1922-2004)
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1980
401 pages
Manchester’s quietly passionate memories of being a young Marine fighting in the Pacific theater in World War II are terrible to behold.
He tells all of his story, the good, the bad, and the really hard to read parts.
Reading Goodbye, Darkness means watching another man’s nightmare in slow motion.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: An Empire on the Edge
by Nick Bunker
The British wanted to win
the Revolutionary War,
but they had good reasons
for not trying too hard…
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 28, 2023 | Book reviews, Books, Global climate change, History, Politics, Power and inequality, World history
the unknowable future begins tomorrow…
Book review:
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari, PhD (b1976)
New York: Spiegel & Grau, imprint of Random House, 2018
372 pages
Harari considers many of the questions that are plaguing 21st century liberal democracies, and the other folks, too.
Perhaps the predominant takeaway of 21 Lessons is that things are changing rapidly, and the unknowable future will be on us during our lifetimes.
If we do not try to deal more effectively and more urgently with the frightful challenges of burgeoning infotech and biotech, and the inescapable constraint of manmade climate change, and our own social, economic, and political shortcomings, we’ll unavoidably learn that we have no one to blame but ourselves.
Harari is a deep thinker, a provocative intellect, and a blunt writer who calls you to risk learning more truth.
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Book review: American Colonies
So many and so much
came before the Pilgrims
by Alan Taylor
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As with another eye: Poems of exactitude with 55 free verse and haiku poems,
and the rest of my poetry books are for sale on Amazon (paperback and Kindle)
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by Richard Subber | Sep 26, 2023 | Politics, Power and inequality, Tidbits
seldom…never…you pick it
“Power, once acquired,
is seldom voluntarily parted with.”
Thomas Hutchinson (1711-1780)
Loyalist Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay (1769-1774)
Make no mistake: Hutchinson was talking about the growing political power of the Sons of Liberty, not his own stake in the royal chain of command.
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Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
How the Irish Became White (book review)
just another slice of American history by Noel Ignatiev
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Writing Rainbows: Poems for Grown-Ups with 59 free verse and haiku poems,
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by Richard Subber | Sep 23, 2023 | My poetry, Poetry, Reflections
‘round and ‘round she goes…
moto perpetuo
Surrounded.
By a baby.
She is in motion,
she is energy, all energies.
Does she move fast enough to fill all the space?
It seems true…
I follow her, she scampers on and around,
she fills my horizons,
I am surrounded…
…and I surrender, she has taken me alive.
Life is good.
December 12, 2012
’round and ’round…
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My poetry. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
Poets talk about poetry
…it’s a red hot bucket of love…
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Seeing far: Selected poems with 47 free verse and haiku poems,
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Your comments are welcome—tell me what you’re thinking.
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by Richard Subber | Sep 21, 2023 | American history, Book reviews, Books, History, Power and inequality
who believes President Madison didn’t do it?…
Book review:
The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family
by Bettye Kearse
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020
253 pages
Bettye Kearse has written her convincingly detailed book about her family tradition that President James Madison is her relative, six generations back.
Her belief is that Madison fathered a son (Jim, a slave) with Coreen, a black slave cook in his household, and that James and Jim are in the long line of Kearse family grandfathers.
There is no objective proof of the Madison connection, but it’s way too easy to believe that this slave-owning president did what so many other white men did with so many of their slave women in the early 19th century.
I wonder how many “black” Americans have white ancestors?
I wonder how many “white” Americans have black ancestors?
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Book review. Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2023 All rights reserved.
“Many waters cannot quench love.”
Love will rise to meet you…
(what you hear is poetry)
Book review: St. Ives
by Robert Louis Stevenson
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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)
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