Recommend some books for me

paying3tuitions
Wed, 21 Nov 2007 02:09:03 +0000

“The Tipping Point” is interesting because it gives you a model to apply to all new current trends in society, politics and so forth. I was thinking it’s an interestng crossover for a math mind, and lets you think and apply as new trends develop.

I’m picking up where you mentioned Holocaust reading recently, but wanted to move on somewhat. I applaud your interest and equally understand you need a break there, too. Consider Donna Rosenthal, The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land

Alan Dershowitz always interests me, and he keeps writing new books. I’ve read Chutzpah and The Vanishing American Jew but haven’t kept up with him lately.

Sometimes I like a crossover between fiction and history, where I feel like I’m reading a novel but it wades into historical areas. Phillip Roth’s The Plot Against America imagines what it would have been like if the antiSemitic Charles Lindbergh had become President of the U.S. That’s not exactly a break from reading about Holocaust, though; it’s more of a fictional variation.

In history, try “1776” or the AutoBiography of Benjamin Franklin, which I recommend because they’re very well written, recent, and dynamic.