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I just read the book by Matthew Perry, which was excellent, and then a book by the woman who was married to Bruce Jenner, and lived with Elvis Presley for many years. It was good but not as riveting as the book by Perry. Maybe because he had just died when I read it, I don't know.
The book by Matthew Perry was Friends, Lovers and the Big, Terrible Thing. The one by Linda Thompson was called A Little Thing Called Life, I believe. I would recommend both.
I'm almost finished reading "Astor" by Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe. With all the interest right now in The Gilded Age and Caroline Astor's "400", it's an excellent read and Cooper has some unique insight into that family considering his ancestors, the Vanderbilts, were contemporaries of them...contemporaries the Astors looked down upon because they considered them "nouveau rich". Ironic, since the Astor fortune originally grew from skinning beavers!
Each generation of that family had some particular scandal...John Jacob Astor IV left his wife for an 18-year-old girl only to lose his life on the Titanic returning from his European honeymoon; the life long rift between his two sons, half-brothers Vincent and John Jacob VI (who was born months after his widowed teenage mother Madeline Astor survived the Titanic in a lifeboat); the branch that left the U.S. to reside in England and became the Viscount Astors; the "other" John Jacob Astor, a distant relative, a cigar maker who died in poverty in an alms house; and the "last" Mrs. Astor's son charged and convicted with embezzling her fortune. Brooke Astor was the widow of Vincent Astor., and the heir to his estate. The book is one of the most interesting nonfictions I've read in a long time.
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One book I read recently was The Many Lives of Micheal Bloomberg/Eleanor Randolph
He's now the 4th or 5th richest billionaire in the world, he did some great things for NYC as Mayor for 3 terms, and he has his many Philanthropic endeavors, and he shells out millions to Democratic Candidates at election time.
Not the most exciting bio, but sufficiently interesting.
Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution
by Hadley Arkes
In this profoundly important reassessment of constitutional interpretation, the eminent legal philosopher Hadley Arkes argues that "originalism" alone is an inadequate answer to judicial activism.
I just finished reading FAcemaker/A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of WWI/Lindsey Fitzharris.
Magicians, that's what I term these FAcial/plastic surgeons. All these soldiers returning from the battle field with blown off noses, jaws, mouths, ears, it's amazing how they can repair these faces. The British gov't gave those with the disfigured faces a full pension as who's going to hire them?
Today they can even do total face transplants, take the face off a young man or woman that died and transplant the whole face to a burn victim.
Magicians, I have no other word to describe these Saints.
"Tulsi Gabbard is one of the bravest people in the United States—and if you doubt that, consider what she’s lost for telling the truth about the most powerful people in the world."
Tucker Carlson
It seems you got lost on your way to the Politics & Other Controversies forum
ETA that Buddhist Republicans are an *extremely* rare breed...83% of Americans who identify as Buddhist lean or are Democrats, 14% are moderates. You are part of the remaining 3%
ETA that Buddhist Republicans are an *extremely* rare breed...83% of Americans who identify as Buddhist lean or are Democrats, 14% are moderates. You are part of the remaining 3%
Unwarranted assumption. No party (NPP) registration, independent.
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