BOOKS

What Karl's reading

After three years preparing The Triumph of William McKinley by reading very little but books, letters, articles and newspapers from the Gilded Age, I’m trying to get back into my regular routine, which I’ll chronicle here with an occasional review of what I’ve read.

The Devil's Elixir
By Raymond Khoury

While working away on a more serious book, I ran across this in an airport newsstand...

Export Now: Five Keys to Entering New Markets
By Frank Lavin and Peter Cohan

My good friend Frank Lavin (former Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce and previously U.S. Ambassador to Singapore) sent me a copy of his new book, EXPORT NOW: FIVE KEYS TO ENTERING NEW MARKETS, co-authored with Peter S. Cohan. It’s a little different from what you might typically find on my reading list...

Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
By Donald B. Cole

This is another fine book from the University of Kansas series on presidential election.

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
By Stephen Greenblatt

I enjoyed Professor Greenblatt’s last book, WILL IN THE WORLD: HOW SHAKESPEARE BECAME SHAKESPEARE enormously but his latest volume, not so much...

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