BRIEFLY NOTED: Summer Reading - by John Psmith
My output this summer was small measured in number of posts, but large measured in number of words.| www.thepsmiths.com
My output this summer was small measured in number of posts, but large measured in number of words.| www.thepsmiths.com
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, Paul Fussell (1983; Touchstone, 1992).| www.thepsmiths.com
Storia do Mogor; or, Mogul India 1653-1708 (vols. 1 and 2), Niccolao Manucci, (trans. William Irvine, John Murray, 1907).| www.thepsmiths.com
Leap of Faith: Hubris, Negligence, and America’s Greatest Foreign Policy Tragedy, Michael J.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz (Harper Business, 2014).| Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious, Ross Douthat (Zondervan, 2025).| Mr. and Mrs. Psmith’s Bookshelf
The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges (1864; trans.| www.thepsmiths.com
The Education of Cyrus, Xenophon (trans.| www.thepsmiths.com
When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut (New York Review of Books, 2021). Have you ever sat and stared at the sea? If you’ve been near it, then I’m sure you have. As soon as it hoves into view, our eyes are drawn ineluctably up to that far horizon, that endless undulating plain. Coast-dwelling cultures around the earth have stories and legends about the ocean’s strange magnetism, like some eldritch vista that once beheld deepens and ages the soul, but stare too long and...| www.thepsmiths.com
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building, Claire Hughes Johnson (Stripe Press, 2023).| www.thepsmiths.com
