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THE BRINK: PRESIDENT REAGAN AND THE NUCLEAR WAR SCARE OF 1983 by Marc Ambinder

  Rating: ❤❤❤❤ Brink, Kubrick, Click Life, thy name is Caprice. If there’s one thing that I disbelieve in absolutely, it’s the notion of any lasting general safety in existence. No matter how civilized civilization seems, or how stable stability appears, I expect accident, disaster, meltdown and widespread panic every day. Of course, I don’t tremble …

REDEMPTION: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.’S LAST 31 HOURS by Joseph Rosenbloom

Rating: ❤❤❤❤❤   He used to say, over and over, every day he would put on his cemetery clothes. – Cornel West, Black Prophetic Power When MLK was assassinated in 1968, young journalist Joseph Rosenbloom decided to eventually investigate and tell “what happened in Memphis leading to the violent finale to King’s life.” Fifty years later …

Special interview: Patrick Symmes, author of THE DAY FIDEL DIED: CUBA IN THE AGE OF RAÚL, OBAMA, AND THE ROLLING STONES

According to the late dictator Fidel Castro, the Revolución Cubana’s legacy was almost blameless, constructive, justifiably defiant and positively epochal rather than dystopian and fated for failure. However, besides ever-intrusive government, the quest for mass social justice requires drastic actions, so it’s easy to find Fidel’s denials of civil-rights abuses, executions and intolerance incredible.  On …

THE SOURCE: HOW RIVERS MADE AMERICA AND HOW AMERICA REMADE ITS RIVERS by Martin Doyle

Rating: ❤❤❤❤ The life in us is like the water in the river. – Walden or, Life in the Woods My soul has grown deep like the rivers. – Langston Hughes, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “Moon River,” “Ol’ Man River,” “Big River,” “Green River,” “Black Water,” “Roll on Columbia,” “Following the River,” “Lazy River,” “Proud …