Howard Schneider
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Leonardo da Vinci
BY WALTER ISAACSON SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017 624 PP.; $35.00 “Leonardo was a genius,” Walter Isaacson says near the end of Leonardo da Vinci.... Read More
Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
BOOK BY KURT ANDERSEN RANDOM HOUSE, 2017 480 PP.; $30.00 In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus claims that history is a nightmare from which... Read More
Willoughbyland: England’s Lost Colony
BOOK BY MATTHEW PARKER THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS/ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, 2017 304 PP.; $26.99 Were North America's original thirteen British colonies the first ones relinquished... Read More
Nutshell
BOOK BY IAN MCEWAN NAN A. TALESE / DOUBLEDAY 2016 197 PP.; $24.95 THE PROTAGONIST and first-person chronicler of the British writer Ian McEwan’s... Read More
Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution
Richard Whittle’s Predator: The Secret Origins of the Drone Revolution is the chronicle of an ingenious, proficient piece of technology that many people deplore... Read More
Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson’s Lost Pacific Empire
When the United States was very young—circa 1808—President Thomas Jefferson and the wealthy, successful businessman John Jacob Astor (fur trading, Manhattan real estate) had... Read More
Writing on the Wall: Social Media—The First 2,000 Years
Tom Standage’s self-imposed mandate is to assuage our technoterror. In books like his laudable study of the telegraph, The Victorian Internet (1998), and An... Read More