Studying: book reviews

I have been doing quite a bit of reading that is relevant to my political interests, and it occurred to me that I should treat that as I would if I was actually doing a course, and have a go at some "formal" book reviews.

I'll try to do these at the rate of one a week, which means I have about half a year's worth of writing to do based on what I've already read recently, but there's also the hard copy books I've read the past and my current reading (and watching), so this may finish . . . in about three future lifetimes from now :)

I'll keep a running list of my book reviews in this post:

• # 012 - (next) 
• # 011 -  Penny Wong: Passion and Principle", by Margaret Simons - partial review only - https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2020/01/joining-political-parties-and-penny.html; 
• # 010 - Review and lessons from TimeGhost Army’s “Rise of Evil - From Populism to Fascism” - https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/review-and-lessons-from-timeghost-armys.html
• # 009 - Barbara Tuchman’s “The Guns of August” - https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/10/book-review-and-lessons-from-barbara.html.

Previous (informal) book reviews include:

• # 008 - Amy Chua - "Political Tribes" (Pub. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018, London, ISBN 978-1-4088-8154-5): https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/02/political-tribes-comment.html;
• # 007 - the fourth edition of Geoffrey  Robertson's "Crimes Against Humanity" (The New Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1-59558-860-9, 4th ed.);
  # 006 - "The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Remade the World", Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, (Simon & Schuster, New York, 2017, ISBN 978-1-5011-0986-7, Amazon);
  # 005 - "Human Rights After Hitler: the Lost History of Prosecuting Axis War Crimes", Dan Plesch (Georgetown University Press, Washington, 2017, ISBN 978-1-62616-431-4, Amazon); and
  # 004 - "The Final Days" by Woodward and Bernstein (my copy Simon and Schuster, New York, 1976, ISBN 978-0-74325-7406-7);
  all of which were reviewed at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2018/04/some-brief-book-reviews.html; 
• # 003 - Masha Gessen's The Future is History" (pub. Riverhead Books, New York, 2017, ISBN 978-1-59463-3); and
  # 002 - Mary Ann  Glendon's "A World  Made  New" (Random House, 2002, ISBN 978-0679463108);
  which I reviewed at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/04/reflections-on-some-reading.html; 
• # 001 - Katherine Graham’s autobiography – “Personal History” (Vintage, 1998, ISBN-13: 978-0375701047, Amazon) - review is at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2018/06/katherine-grahams-autobiography-brief.html. 

I also briefly mention Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals" (Penguin, 2009, ISBN 978-0141043722) and Paul K Chappell's“The Art of Waging Peace” (pub. Prospecta Press, reprint 2015, ISBN 978-1632260314 [Amazon]) in a commentary at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/08/reading.html. I'll review both of those, and another hard copy book of Mr Chappell's that I have, in due course.

I also very briefly mention Plato's Apology in my second ever post on this blog, at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2016/10/voting-and-socrates.html, which was when I trying to work through a political science course in an ordered manner (hah! like that worked out 😁 ).  There's probably other passing mentions of books (PS - such as here, here, here, and here . . . ), but that will do for now.