One is the home guard, which patrolled for deserters and draft dodgers (on both sides) with brutal effectiveness.

This book was written by my mentor Robert Greene but my bias is far outweighed by the fact that it is universally regarded as a classic. Although the war in Afghanistan has been going on for more than a decade, soldiers and cultural pundits alike have often noted how completely removed the vast majority of the American public is from that reality.Admiral David Porter was a large part of these victories (for instance, he ran the gun batteries in Vicksburg which helped Grant win and cement his status as the preeminent fighting general).

He had no real purpose for it all, no real plan or true empire — it was just fight, win, own, fight, win, own until the end (and in the end, as Epictetus observed, he still died and was buried like the rest of us). I’m looking at a book on one of my shelves; written by a well-regarded historian for a general readership, it initially appeared in print in 2011. For general readers who are interested in the publishing industry, the rich description of every segment of the contemporary book industry may satisfy much curiosity. The text is too heavy, with only two blocks of paragraphs per page, and is as thick as a dictionary.SSP established The Scholarly Kitchen blog in February 2008 to keep SSP members and interested parties aware of new developments in publishing.

His nearly inhuman bravery and stoicism is still spoken of in awe by the men who witnessed it (John McCain was one of them). There are no formal interviews in BookWars although the booksellers at times speak informally to the filmmaker. All sorts of wonderful tactical thoughts and stories of leadership and bravery are shown in their journey home. In some ways, I find this book hard to apply (and easy to misapply) because it’s so aphoristic and general.Finally, co-producer Michel Negroponte contacted the filmmaker regarding an editing station that had become available in New York City; payment to the machine's owners at Copacetic Pictures could be deferred until the movie was completed and sold. Though this book is fiction (and was at the time extraordinarily popular — and eventually a bad movie), it is actually quite good.

From the beautiful and moving words of Pericles’ funeral oration to the cunning and creative tactics of the Spartan general Brasidas, this book has everything. Mainly black and minority individuals, they ply books and magazines in parallel fashion to the nearby West 4th street booksellers, who are primarily white. The Art of Manliness participates in affiliate marketing programs, which means we get paid commissions on editorially chosen products purchased through our links. A grant administrator from The Pacific Pioneer Fund explained that, while he considered BookWars to be a worthy and compelling project, he felt that the filmmaker “would have to be a genius to pull it off” (funding was denied). And if you liked these recommendations, you can get more every month by signing up for my reading newsletter.It is in his understanding of politics — or rather, what happens when politics break down — that Clausewitz really made his contributions. I’m not sure any other text has shaped my view of politics and international affairs in the time since.