Fact:
Fiction:
Posted on 12/21/2013 10:05:27 AM PST by ken5050
With so many books published every year, it's easy to somehow overlook a really good one, one definitely worth reading. With that in mind, and given that FReepers are, for the most part, extensive readers, I'm curious as to what's the best NEW book published in 2013 that you've read.
Merry Christmas to all, and just maybe, you'll find a last minute stocking stuffer on this thread.
Well, “What’s the one best NEW book YOU’ve read this year?”
Spoiler alert...I wrote ‘em.
Fiction: Tom Clancy - “Command Authority”
Non-fiction: Paul Kengor - “The Communist, Frank Marshall Davis: the Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor.”
Fact:
Fiction:
The Black book of communism to remind me what we got in the WH.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Book-Communism-Repression/dp/0674076087
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Book_of_Communism
Estimated number of victims[edit]
In the introduction, editor Stéphane Courtois states that “...Communist regimes... turned mass crime into a full-blown system of government”[3]. He claims that a death toll totals 94 million[4]. The breakdown of the number of deaths given by Courtois is as follows:
65 million in the People’s Republic of China
20 million in the Soviet Union
2 million in Cambodia
2 million in North Korea
1.7 million in Africa
1.5 million in Afghanistan
1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
1 million in Vietnam
150,000 in Latin America (mainly Cuba)
10,000 deaths “resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power.”[4]
Courtois claims that Communist regimes are responsible for
Read excerpt HERE
Actually, I'm having trouble coming up with a ONE BEST..
Dan Brown - Inferno - Fiction
Clancy’s last few, while good read, were in no way on a par with his earlier books...and I wonder if, before his untimely death, he’d begun to rethink his theme that Russia was in fact, “one of the good guys.”
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The “newest” book was “Moneyball”, but Im pretty sure it’s a few years old. I read or reread “The Right Stuff”, “Young Men and Fire” and “The Long Grey Line”, about the Westpoint class of 66.
I like your list , though. Gives me some good ideas. Thanks for it.
I have not read the non-Jack Ryan novels he did with other writers, as I felt, rightly or wrongly that he was just the ‘seller leader.’ The Russians are definitely the bad guys in his last one. the last one I read before Command Authority was Rainbow Six.
Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes and Line Their Pockets by Peter Schweizer
Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains
I understand that the Affordable Care Act is one of the least read of things well known.
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I would have said "A Patriot's History of the Modern World, vol. 2, from the Cold War to the Age of Entitlement" but a) I wrote it and b) I had to read it many times in the process of publication.
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