So, what are you reading now?

d-ray657 · #1 05-06-2020, 10:48 AM

Currently reading "The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's momentous first four months in office. Imagine having a President whose motto was "The buck stops here."

BlueStreak · #2 05-06-2020, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by d-ray657

Currently reading "The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's momentous first four months in office. Imagine having a President whose motto was "The buck stops here."

Yes, a Trumper coworker recently posted a meme about "A Great Republican President!"...……… It was a quote from Harry S. Truman.

LOL!

finnbow · #3 05-13-2020, 10:01 AM

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Currently reading "The Accidental President" about Harry Truman's momentous first four months in office. Imagine having a President whose motto was "The buck stops here."

If you want a deeper dive on Truman, I highly recommend David McCullough's Truman. I think it's the best book of this prolific, terrific writer's career, for which he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Currently, I'm reading The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre. Also highly recommended.

d-ray657 · #4 05-31-2020, 06:17 PM

McCullough's Truman is in the queue, which is probably a year long. I decided on just having some fun with the next one - Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut.

Dondilion · #5 12-27-2020, 02:57 PM

A Course Of Pure Mathematics G.H.Hardy

A read of this famous undergraduate book was pure joy. The attention here to rigor at such an early stage in the education process is striking.

The first publication of this book. 1908.

This has been a good mental exercise...a plus at my age and in a time of virus.

The author, Hardy had a famous connection with the celebrated Indian mathematician, Ramanujan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_H_Hardy