The Latest Books From ’A Good Men’s Book Club’ By Dish Stanley

In The Crush Letter Number 132, I told you about How One Group of Men Does A Good Book Club. And the Books They’ve Liked Best. You liked that story so much that I reached out to the friend in that book group to get an update. Here are the books that they added to their list in the last few months that they liked best.

The Debt Trap: How Student Loans Became A National Catastropher by Josh Mitchell “An entirely compelling read, all the more surprising because its subject matter sounds dullish. Interesting to learn what a significant and duplicitous role universities take in this tragedy, which is weighing down a whole generation.”

The Wise Men: Six Friends And The World They Made by Walter Isaacson & Evan Thomas “What can I say: this is a subject this group loves to read about and debate. It’s about ‘the action a group of U.S. federal government officials and the East Coast foreign policy establishment take in the immediate post-WWII period to develop a containment policy, craft NATO, the World Bank and the Marshall Plan.”

The Best and the Brightest by Halberstam by David Halberstam “Not everybody had read this 1972 masterpiece on the origins of the Vietnam War, and the foreign policy crafted by JFK’s academics and intellectuals, known as Kennedy’s ‘whiz kids’. Those of us who had read it found it a worthwhile re-read, given that our broader perspectives from the passage of time.”

Head’s up, CRUSH Readers: My friend also reported that they read Working by Robert Caro and found it “a total yawn.”

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