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Review of The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson

By Tue, Nov 08, 2011 7:52PM UTC View Comments

The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War by Joshua Kurlantzick (Hardcover edition John Wiley, November 2011). ISBN: 978-0-470-08621-6. US$25.95. 272 pages. Reviewed by The Isaan Record. In Graham Greene’s prescient anti-war classic The Quiet American, OSS operative Alden Pyle espouses an alternative to communism and colonialism in early...

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Mini-reviews of books I’ve read recently

By Sun, Jul 10, 2011 12:39AM UTC View Comments Mini-reviews of books I’ve read recently

Reviews of stuff I’ve read recently, in alphabetical order according to authors. As always, absolutely no poli sci books; this is stuff I read on the bus and subway and as such needs to be far away from the stuff I have to read. The Art of Captaincy by Mike Brearley Brearley is most well...

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China: When a name becomes an human being

By Thu, May 12, 2011 3:18PM UTC View Comments

The book “Out of Mao’s Shadow” transforms a list of anonymous names to heart wrenching stories about the heroes in China. By Ming Ou Lü Liu Shiru, Chen Guangcheng and Hu Jie. For most people, even their fellow Chinese, the names do not ring any bells. It is but three names in the vast sea...

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