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#1> If you haven't already read it, John Dower's outstanding history, Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II, would provide you with a useful and well-written survey of the social, political and economic changes that came with the war's end and the Occupation, and put the excellent ... ... Collected Fictions, a collection of Whitney Balliett's jazz essays from the New Yorker and the previously mentioned Embracing Defeat about postwar Japan.
I meant to get involved with the 'Memorizing Poetry' thread, but somehow I haven't found the motivation just yet. A few more ... ... also very much appreciate his writing on that wonderful city.
Working on finishing How Fiction Works by James Wood, Embracing Defeat , a history of Postwar Japan by John Dower, and slowly working my way through Borges Collected Fictions and The Anchor Anthology of French Poetry.
M ... ... My biggest fear with setting a long book aside "temporarily" is that I won't ever pick it back up again (like I did with Embracing Defeat, which I still haven't finished - again, an almost unprecedented occurance.) ... of Depression by Andrew Solomon
8.In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex by Nathaniel Philbrick
9.Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II by John W. Dower
Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction
1.The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander
2.The Looming ... ... by Jose Eduardo Agualusa later today. After that I'll probably start Children of Heroes by Lyonel Trouillot, The Aftermath of War by Jean-Paul Sartre and Trusting Doctors:The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine by Jonathan B. Imber. ... Karenina
3. Don Quixote
4. Culture and Imperialism
5. Albion
6. Midnight's Children
7. A Suitable Boy
8. Embracing Defeat
9. Capricornia
10.Seven Pillars of Wisdom
11. The Wretched of the Earth
12. The Castle Franz Kafka
13. The Proud Tower
14. The Vicar ... >1,2 Schivelbusch's book lacks structure. It is no Embracing Defeat. His selection of the three cases (ACW, France 1871, Germany 1918) is arbitrary: Defeat in a civil war, defeat which results in a destruction/absorption of a state (not covered: Poland, Baltic Republics) and defeat which changes ...
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