Rob Galvin
Rob Galvin
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Just finished "The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism (Pulitzer Prize Winner)" by Tina Rosenberg
December 27, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Just finished "Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare" by Philip Short
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Just finished "Angkor and the Khmer Civilization" by Michael D. Coe, Damian Evans
December 14, 2025 at 2:30 PM
"Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam" by Fredrik Logevall
December 8, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Just finished "The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams" by Stacy Schiff
November 20, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Just finished "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Just finished "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation" by Andrew Ross Sorkin
November 11, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World" by Tom Holland
October 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future" by Dan Wang
October 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Just finished "The Celts: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions Book 94)" by Barry Cunliffe
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Just finished "Austrian History: A Captivating Guide to the History of Austria and the Habsburg Empire (History of European Countries)" by Captivating History
October 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just finished "Poland: A History" by Adam Zamoyski
September 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just finished "The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe" by Martyn C. Rady
September 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Just finished "Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus" by Elaine Pagels
August 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just finished "Bad Company: Private Equity and the Death of the American Dream—An Exposé of Private Equity's Devastating Impact on American Lives, Communities, and the Economy" by Megan Greenwell
July 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Just finished "A History of South Africa, Fourth Edition" by Leonard Thompson, Lynn Berat
June 20, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Just finished "Abundance" by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson
May 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Just finished "Civilizations: A Novel" by Laurent Binet, Sam Taylor
April 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
"Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century" by Laura Beers
March 30, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Just finished "The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America" by Timothy Egan
March 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just finished "The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire" by William Dalrymple
February 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just finished "Young Men and Fire: Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition" by Norman MacLean, Timothy Egan
January 31, 2025 at 7:43 AM
"India: A History" by John Keay. Excellent one-volume history.
January 20, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Just finished "Reagan: His Life and Legend" by maxboot.bsk.social

This well-balanced biography does a great job of painting a picture of Reagan that doesn’t airbrush the flaws and mistakes, but also doesn’t paint over his accomplishments and strengths.
maxboot.bs
December 27, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Just finished "The Moth and the Mountain: A True Story of Love, War, and Everest" by Ed Caesar
December 15, 2024 at 6:26 AM