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deadpresidents · 2 months

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Latest books you have been reading?

Apparently I haven't shared the books I've been recently reading since the beginning of November. Usually someone reminds me to share my reading list every few weeks, so I think someone should be fired for dereliction of duty.

•Life After Power: Seven Presidents and Their Search for Purpose Beyond the White House (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jared Cohen -- Just released on February 13th, this is the follow-up to Cohen's excellent 2019 book, Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO).

•Borgata: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia (BOOK | KINDLE) by Louis Ferrante.

•Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession, and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant (BOOK | KINDLE) by John Reeves.

•The Border: A Journey Around Russia Through North Korea, China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Norway, and the Northeast Passage (BOOK | KINDLE) by Erika Fatland -- A couple of months ago, I mentioned how much I enjoyed reading Erika Fatland's Sovietistan, and I was equally pleased with The Border, which has a subtitle nearly as long as the Russian border that she wrote about traveling around.

•Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by David Mitchell.

•The Fall of Eagles: The Death of the Great European Dynasties by C.L. Sulzberger.

•George V: Never a Dull Moment (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jane Ridley.

•Adams and Calhoun: From Shared Vision to Irreconcilable Conflict (BOOK | KINDLE) by William F. Hartford.

•God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Jack Kelly.

•Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Peter Sarris.

•Magic: The Life of Earvin "Magic" Johnson (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Roland Lazenby.

•Oracle of Lost Causes: John Newman Edwards and His Never-Ending Civil War (BOOK | KINDLE) by Matthew Christopher Hulbert.

•Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by David Reynolds.

•Mansfield and Dirksen: Bipartisan Giants of the Senate (BOOK | KINDLE) by Marc C. Johnson.

•The World That Wasn't: Henry Wallace and the Fate of the American Century (BOOK | KINDLE | AUDIO) by Benn Steil.

•Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War (BOOK | KINDLE) by Jon Grinspan -- Available for pre-order now and will be published on May 14th.

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romasantos · 1 month

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brother-emperors · 4 months

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you know that post about how scholars talk shit about each other when they write the phrase 'one might be tempted to assume,' or however it went. the entirety of crassus scholarship is like this.

#thankfully all i do is make comics and i can do whatever i want as long as i can justify the narrative beat #otherwise id be. ough. id be tempted to write a 600 page biography on him attempting to unravel this #B.A. Marshall mentioning Rawson's article on Crassus that initially intrigued me about him and he counters her assertion #that pompey overshadowed him with the triumph in a footnote like in a way we have come full circle #everyone collectively agrees that pompey and crassus were not the rivals that a lot of people seem to think they were #so im glad that we're all shaking hands on that. and that the rivalry they did have was just. the usual kind expected from the political #scene. very fun! for narrative purposes i will continue to make them periodically bite each other #because every time someone goes 'oh yeah they were heirs to sulla' i think im going to lose my mind #it does in some ways make their repeated alliance a little unsettling tho. like. haha ha ehgh. now we have to contend with #other kinds of parallels

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framesdump · 5 months

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Orlando, My Political Biography (Orlando, ma biographie politique, 2023) Dir. Paul B. Preciado

#orlando my political biography #orlando ma biographie politique #paul b preciado #paul preciado #2023 #c #queer cinema

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Do not read history. Read biography for it is life without theory.

- Benjamin Disraeli

#benjamin disraeli #disraeli #quote #monarchy #constitutional monarchy #queen elizabeth II #king charles III #britain #government #state #crown #politics #biography #history #life

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pacingmusings · 5 months

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Seen in 2023:

Orlando, My Political Biography (Paul B. Preciado), 2023

#films #movies #stills #docs #documentary #Orlando My Political Biography #Paul B Preciado #French #2020s #literary #Virginia Woolf #seen in 2023

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capricorn-0mnikorn · 2 years

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An hour-and-twenty-minute video essay exploring the history (Going back to Helen Keller’s lifetime, through to the current day) behind the current TikTok trend of claiming Helen Keller was a fraud, because there’s no way a deafblind person could do all the things attributed to her.

Spoiler: it’s flat out ableism combined with anti-socialist propaganda.

Made by a Brit, so it also addresses current ableism in the UK, not just America.

Properly closed captioned. Flashing warning from 02:02 - 02:04 (film projector effects).

#YouTube Video (closed captioned in English)#video essay #Helen Keller #biography #politics #eugenics discussion #racism discussion

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museeeuuuum · 3 months

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If you follow me more for history stuff, check out this biography I did for Amor De Cosmos! A problematic weirdo!!

#history #biography #biopic #amor de cosmos #canadian history #canadian politics #Youtube

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alexanderpearce · 2 months

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ratio of political books ive read/am reading that have used the phrase "the die is cast": 3/4

#the keating biography‚ the end of the party‚ and a journey. we get it #shut up ulrike #political yaoi tag

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pennyserenade · 4 months

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i think all the time about how jimmy stewart and henry fonda once rented out a place with feral cats and instead of getting someone out there to get rid of them they decided to try and domesticate them but couldn’t and those cats kept making more cats too so after awhile their place was overwhelmed by the presence of cats. like more than thirty and henry fonda named them all george to make it simpler. also one time when henry fonda was gone jimmy stewart and his cousin painted one of them purple bc they thought it would scare away the others and when fonda came back and they handed the cat to him he was so pissed off. eventually they had to move bc the place was so flea infested and idk that’s my favorite story ever. men just getting into chaos because they’re too gentle

#misc.#i’m reading a biography about them rn and i adore them #so much of who they were together is so beautiful and polite and gentle #even their practical jokes. it’s all so innocuous which is quite insane bc men of the 30s were EVIL #especially when put together #but no not hank and jimmy. they got cat infested houses out of affection for living things #and spent hours in silence building model airplanes together

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fictionadventurer · 11 months

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A Presidential History of the United States, Abridged

Party Leaders: This will be a very difficult election to win. We should choose a vice presidential candidate whose views are the opposite of the ones held by the presidential candidate. This will cause no problems.

Presidential Candidate: [Gets elected]

Party Leaders: Hooray! Look at how good our idea was! We are very smart!

President: [Dies partway through his term]

Vice President: Guess I'm president now. :)

Party Leaders: Oh no

#EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.#WE ARE FOUR FOR FOUR!#YOU WOULD THINK THEY WOULD LEARN!#my library ebook app happened to have the garfield biography features in the podcast ep #it's gripping so far #not least because garfield's up against a political enemy who is basically literally a supervillain #and the party picks arthur as vp to keep this guy happy #because arthur's in his pocket as his top henchman #and i'm just like WHY?#HAVE YOU NOT LEARNED??#i await developments because arthur's podcast ep is titled 'redemption'#so things may turn out alright #it will not in the slightest change the fact that THIS WAS A HORRIBLE IDEA HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE RUNNING THE COUNTRY??#history is awesome #presidential talk

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compacflt · 10 months

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Sorry for the ridiculous ask (really it's unforgivable), but:

Iceman went to NYC to see A Chorus Line in '87.

2. Confirmed watched Sound of Music with Carole for her birthday.

Am I connecting any dots here and did Ice have to go to Hamilton as a publicity stunt in the last year of the Obama presidency?

oh no anon im being very intentional with my ice-musical-theatre links. its easy lazy writing shorthand for him being gay lol. even if he isn’t actively seeing shows he does put the tonys on in the background every year just bc he likes the color and dancing

he’s not a fan of rap and he doesn’t like how Hamilton bastardized american history for its own political aims thereby convincing multiple generations of laymen of factoids that simply aren’t true (Hamilton was strictly speaking not an immigrant & could only extremely loosely be called an abolitionist of any stripe) but he’s also a milquetoast liberal so he says he likes it for clout but he’s also a military flag officer so no one is really expecting him to go see Hamilton for publicity purposes so idk

the pentagon circa 2016:

#don’t ask me about Hamilton. It’s what got me into American/military history in the first place. i literally have so many thoughts.#I did a mil history book rec post a couple months ago & in it I said Ron Chernow sometimes makes shit up?#lin Manuel Miranda was inspired by chernows biography of Hamilton but chernow Just Made Shit Up!!!!#I feel about Hamilton the way I feel about the historicity of my own fics: do not take anything as a fact. every word is #politically motivated. not a bad thing #good rhetorical goals #but it’s a work of fiction.#i got started writing fanfiction by writing Hamilton fic in 8th grade 😭😭❤️#they’re still up there!!!#on ao3!!!#still get kudos once a month or something #absolutely unreal #& I actually take all my cues of how to act in fandom spaces from one very popular historical Hamilton account on here #whom I’ve been following since 2017 #they’re the ones who proved to me that fanfiction could still be as heavy and well written as literature.#so really thank Hamilton for my fics and im not joking at all.

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brother-emperors · 6 months

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Im curious if you see more parallels between Octavian and Mark Antony, and Brutus and Cassius, as both being brother in laws.

tbh, there's not a lot there for me to dig my teeth into. Octavian and Antony were brother in laws with Octavia as an intermediary, so functionally a marriage with three people to it, while Cassius did not need to use Brutus' sister specifically as a go between them

the Horrible Family Dynamic that compels me with Octavian and Mark Antony is that step father in law kind of situation going on when Octavian was married to Claudia (while Antony was married to Fulvia) and then later Agrippa's marriage to Octavian's daughter. like. instead of the horizontal nature of in laws on a family tree, we're getting the vertical nature of something that makes me go Huh™

#like roman political families are already insular but the augustan age and empire really make it incestual #ask tag #also a lot of my attention for antony and octavian have very little to do with history and a lot to do with whatever hbo rome was doing #when they decided to make octavian a masochist by implication of antony trying to strangle him #and also. the french musical.#their historical counterparts are both. ehgh. i have yet to make it through a full biography on antony OR octavian #there is a new antony biography that just came out like. a few weeks ago. ALAS. i do not have access to it. it sounds really interesting #tho. and finally focused on something thematically i could bite into. maybe that bio will make antony intriguing to me

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mihrsuri · 5 months

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Have just now managed an OC who is me but better and she’s the baby of the family sweet gentle kind princess who is beautiful and wise and can’t have sex because of trauma but has|carries children because I invented 16th century IVF and she loves sewing and dresses and babies and looking after people and she’s my aspiration and you know what? I am actually working on not being ashamed of creating her.

#lil and her ridiculous aus #ot3: political power trio #anyway it’s pippa #i should write up the kids biographies again #i am shaking off the early 2000s mary sue bullshit even though it’s terrifying #(pippa is a minor character but also she’s everyones favourite and i am determined not to be ashamed of that)

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buckets-of-dirt · 6 months

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Looking for Book Recommendations

Help me find a book I can give my right-wing little brother for Christmas following a harm-reduction model for deradicalization. I need something he'll actually read that will subtly expand his worldview just enough to help him take the tiniest baby step towards the center (we'll work on further left once he gets to the "reasonable" stage).

Book topics he seems genuinely interested in:

Memoirs by/biographies of "self made men"

Stoicism (he's read Marcus Aurelius already)

Those self-help books that supposedly tell you how to be wildly successful (ie rich and powerful)

Remember, the goal is subtlety. I need to meet him where he's at. He's not gonna read bell hooks or Das Kapital right away, especially if it's me handing it to him. If it's not an innocuous-seeming gift given in good faith it won't work.

Thanks for your help!

#project deradicalize my little brother #this boy is an engineering major and business minor who makes a token effort towards not misgendering me to please our liberal parents #if that gives you a clearer view of what you've got to work with #deradicalization #harm reduction #books #reading #memoirs #biographies #philosophy #stoicism #politics #us politics

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newhistorybooks · 4 months

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Wallace strips away the sentimental image of Helen Keller and reveals an astonishing woman who lectured, traveled, wrote books, and loved movies. A friend of Charlie Chaplin and of Martin Luther King, she was a radical and passionate political activist taking stands against war, racism, and inequality that brought her to the attention of Hoover and his FBI. Following Keller’s life, Wallace offers a bonus: a stunning overview of the brutal politics of the 20th century. I enjoyed the book very much."

#uwlibraries #history books #america history #women's history #biography #political history

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