Posted on 10/01/2010 8:54:31 AM PDT by MplsSteve
Hi everyone! It's time again for my quarterly "What Are You Reading Now?" thread.
As you know, I consider Freepers to be among the more well-read member of the cyber world. I like to find out what you're all reading.
Essentially, it can be anything. A timeless classic, a trashy pulp novel, a technical journal, etc. In short, anything!
Please do not ruin this thread by posting something stupid like "I'm Reading Your Thread". It became really really unfunny a long time ago.
I'll start. I'm reading "Pendergast!" by Lawrence J Larsen and Nancy J Hulston. Written in 1997, it chronicles the life as well as the rise and fall of Tom Pendergast. In the 1920's and 30's, he was the undisputed boss of Kansas City. Nothing moved or happened in that city without his approval. He was responsible for the rise of Harry S Truman as well.
Pendergast was a contradiction in many terms. he was a family man but also contracted syphilis from a prostitute. He looked out for the downtrodden by getting them jobs and food and then skimmed money off the side (on public works projects) for his own use.
And last but not least, he was a life-long Democrat as well!
All in all, this is a good book and one I'd recommend strongly.
Well, what are you reading now?!
Free Republic threads, why do you ask? ;)
“Goes to show how much talent King really has.”
Which is why I do NOT read his stuff any more. He’s too good at what he writes, and I do NOT want that kind of stuff cluttering up my poor overstuffed brain. It’s bad enough as it is. Same reason I no longer read Dean Koontz. When he wrote SF, I was good. Now he seems to write nothing but horror, and I don’t need it.
If they wrote cookbooks, or programmers handbooks, or mysteries, or westerns, or fantasy or SF, anything but horror, I’d probably be collecting their stuff.
Have you read Johnson’s Churchill?
It is outstanding.
The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine
The Cook County, Chicago Democratic Machine was founded by a crook, pimp, gambler, murderer and thug. Surprised?
My reading docket is full for about 10 months.
My reading tells me the political situation with a narcissistic President with a ideological driven excuse for excess make it read like a Bill Gertz exposed plot.
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