Historian Giles Tremlett’s insightful, comprehensive, and readable biography reveals an enigma of a man. Readers can appreciate two facets of the dictator, and these can be embraced by those who love or hate him.
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Books 2025: Revisiting Animal Farm 80 Years Later
The salvation in the prose comes from a shared understanding with my grandparents’ generation about the significance of democracy and the dangers of power consolidation.
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Books 2025: Understanding the Threat of 21st-Century Autocracy
How, in McFaul’s words, did U.S. and Russian relations go from “euphoria about democracy, globalization, and the West three decades ago to uncertainty about democracy, doubt about the liberal international order, and fear of powerful autocracies today?”
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Books 2025: Reading ‘The Art Thief’ in the Year of the Louvre Heist
Book: The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession Author: Michael Finkel Reviewed by: Jorge Fernandez In October of 2025, eight individuals broke into the […]
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Books 2025: Globetrotting Entrepreneur From Gwinnett on ‘Unsucking’ Your Business
Book: Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your Business Author: Jeffrey Spence Review by: Nick Masino, president and CEO, Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce Jeffrey Spence’s Unconstrained: Fueling Opportunities and Unsucking Your […]
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Books 2024: A Portrait of Ireland’s 20th-Century Evolution
Having visited Ireland first in 1982 and seeing it repeatedly during the Celtic Tiger years and after, my shorthand description of the changes in Ireland is that, in a generation, Ireland had moved from the status of Portugal, to Switzerland.
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Books 2024: A Presidential Biographer’s Personal Love Story
“An Unfinished Love Story” provides an unflinching, up-close-and-personal record of “the political cauldron of the Sixties,” in Kearns Goodwin’s words.”
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Books 2024: Historical Lessons From Berlin for Today’s Fashion Industry
Fashion is an enormous global industry. It sits at the very crossroads of individual expression and the global ecological consequences of our lifestyle choices. Fashion may be beautiful, but Fashion definitely is political.
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Books 2024: Stories of Turmoil Amid the U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan
Book: The Secret Gate: A True Story of Courage and Sacrifice During the Collapse of Afghanistan Author: Mitchell Zuckoff Reviewed by: Jorge Fernandez, consultant at The Pendleton Group, retired U.S. […]
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Books 2024: How a German Polymath Influenced Global Influencers to ‘Invent Nature’
While reading, I was constantly amazed by the way the glitterati of the time were entranced by Humboldt, who by all accounts simultaneously informed, impressed, bemused (and sometimes annoyed) anyone who came into contact with him.