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...Walter Isaacson’s biography of Musk seeks to tell a much bigger story than the one outlined above....
...We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment....
...It was an instant hit, and when his father Walter came to help out one summer, he enjoyed the experience so much that he decided to bring the idea back to his hometown of Portland....
...Losing The Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East, by Philip H Gordon, St Martin’s Press, RRP$29.99, 368 pages From Iran in 1953 to Libya in 2011, via Iraq in 2003 (as well as...
...The most disconcerting aspect of the Brexit process remains the absence of what George H.W....
...Madness is Better Than Defeat , by Ned Beauman, Sceptre, RRP£16.99, 416 pages Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis/Bettmann Archive...
...The following year, in April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr would be assassinated by a white man, and those cities would erupt again....
...Who wouldn’t rather be Walter Matthau than Jack Lemmon in The Odd Couple?...
...By the time Graham Greene edited a symposium in which a group of well-known authors reminisced about their education, only one, Walter Greenwood, had attended a state school....
...Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal, by Jay Parini, Little, Brown, RRP£25, 480 pages....
..., PublicAffairs, RRP£19.99/$29.99, 496 pages National Security and Double Government, by Michael Glennon, OUP, RRP£19.99/$29.95, 272 pages If failure deserves never to be rewarded, the Central Intelligence...
...As Piketty disarmingly accepts, economics is only one guide to the pressing issues of the day; fiction can offer different insights and, on this particular subject, We Live in Water , Jess Walter’s tender...
...There was plenty of time to gaze out of the window, to read a page or two, write a postcard and fall into a slumber, lulled by the gentle clicketyclack....
...… We Live in Water, by Jess Walter, Penguin, RRP£8.99/Harper Perennial, RRP$14.99 Best known for his 2012 Beautiful Ruins , Walter centres these stories of down-at-heel American life around his home...
...Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Bacon, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, H Rider Haggard and W Somerset Maughan are part of this caravan....
...J H Plumb, who had been my professor at Cambridge, was its editor and he thought I was the person to finish it....
...George H.W....
...“If Dad got behind him, that would help shut the door,” Jeb Jr told The New York Times in a front-page interview that appeared in print the day before the Florida vote....
...Her most outlandish mission, though, was a trip to bombed-out Berlin in 1943, where she met with SS general Walter Schellenberg....
...One of the books that has influenced my thinking on business is Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926) by R.H....
...Walter Kiechel makes the list with The Lords of Strategy, an exploration of the corporate “strategy revolution”....
...In 1919, the young EB White, future New Yorker writer and author of Charlotte’s Web, took a class at Cornell University with a drill sergeant of an English professor named William Strunk Jr....
...From the most unpromising of starts, he ended up with a far more impressive record, at least in electoral terms, than George H W Bush....
...(H/T The Real Limey for the Maiden Lane CUSIPS in Excel form) Related links: In the Fed we TruPS – FT Alphaville Thoughts on Maiden Lane III - The Aleph blog...
...towering black Jimmy Choo booties, which look familiar from a YouTube video I had seen of the walk-in closet in her gigantic Fifth Avenue apartment (which she bought from Warner chief executive Edgar Bronfman Jr...
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