LA Noir: The Struggle for the Soul of America's Most Seductive City by john Buntin (New York; Harmony, 2009)
A story that juxtaposes the growth of organized crime in Los Angeles during the twentieth century with the career of William H. Parker, a policeman who crusaded against crime and eventually became the city's police chief. I am listening to the audio version.The haunted wood : Soviet Espionage in America - the Stalin Era by Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vasiliev (New York: Random House, 1999)
The story of Soviet espionage in the US that used documents from the KGB archives during the brief period that they were open to Western scholars.Ten Ways to Destroy the Imagination of Your Child by Anthony Esolen (Newburyport, Mass.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2014)
An argument for traditionalist methods of child rearing and education. This book is hard to find in libraries, but I am about to read an online version at a local academic library.Trump Aftershock by Stephen Strang (Lake Mary, Fla.: Front Line, 2018)
I just got this book last week.
Esolen is one of my favorite writers.