Book: Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro Author: Thomas Maier Reviewed by Paul Varian, retired CNN executive producer Gangsters Sam Giancana and Johnny Roselli, who cut their teeth as street thugs for Al Capone, rose to underworld prominence using brutality, cunning and charm. In 1960, the longtime Mafia pals […]
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Books 2019: The Dangers of Not Talking to Strangers
Book: Talking to Strangers:What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know Author: Malcolm Gladwell Review by: Soumaya Khalifa, president, Khalifa Consulting and founder of the Islamic Speakers Bureau of Atlanta Like many, I grew up with my parents telling me not to talk to strangers. Now in my consulting, I work with leaders and […]
Books 2019: Colonialism or Philanthropy? Blurred Lines in King Leopold’s Congo
Book: King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa Author: Adam Hochschild Review by: Kirk Bowman, Jon R. Wilcox Professor of Soccer and Global Politics, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Tech; Founder and Director, Rise Up & Care After procrastinating for two decades, I finally read King Leopold’s Ghost […]
Books 2019: A Decade Later, Revisiting the Ramifications of a Warmer Planet
Book: Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet Author: Mark Lynas Reviewed by: Michael Manely, CEO of The Manely Firm, P.C., International Family Law — a Global Atlanta sponsor It was the United Nations reports released in late November that caused me to revisit Six Degrees, a book that is now a decade old. […]
Books 2019: Common Humanity Amid the Tragedy of World War II
Book: All the Light We Cannot See Author: Anthony Doerr Review by: William De Baets, Consul General of Belgium to the Southeast U.S. My wife gave me Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See for my birthday last June. She knows I like stories about life during World War II, and I must say that her […]
Books 2019: Lessons, but No Simple Answers, From History’s Great Leaders
Title: Leaders: Myth and Reality Author: General Stanley McChrystal Review by: Mark Becker, President, Georgia State University What drew me to this book is the subtitle, not the title. Gen. Stanley McChrystal is now a senior fellow at Yale University, and I have heard him speak, so I knew about his previous books and his […]
Books 2019: ‘Nickel Boys’ Unearths Buried Evidence of Slavery’s Lasting Legacy
Book: The Nickel Boys Author: Colson Whitehead Review by: Cedric L. Suzman, retired co-founder and director of programming, World Affairs Council of Atlanta The Nickel Boys is a lot more disturbing to read than Colson Whitehead’s earlier book, The Underground Railway [Read Belgian Consul General William De Baets’ 2018 Underground Railway review here]. It is a […]
Books 2019: Truman’s State Department and the Man Who Managed a Volatile Period
Book: Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department Author: Dean Acheson Review by: Shelby Grubbs, managing member, Miller & Martin PLLC’s Atlanta office Dean Acheson was perhaps an exemplar of “Eastern elitism.” A bishop’s son, he was educated at Groton, Yale and Harvard Law, served as a State Department official from 1941 […]
Books 2019: A Reminder From Moscow on Appreciating Life’s Bounty
Book: A Gentleman in Moscow Author: Amor Towles Review by: Jim Reed, President, YKK Corp. of America When I picked up A Gentleman in Moscow at a friend’s recommendation, I thought I remembered him saying it was a spy novel. After two chapters, I remember thinking, “This guy is a terrible spy and this is […]
Former KGB Spy Tells Kiwanians Soviet Ideology May Be Dead, But Russian Nationalism Is Alive and Well
Jack Barsky, the former Soviet spy who now lives in the state of Georgia, said at a Kiwanis Club of Atlanta luncheon May 28 honoring the city’s Consular Corps that he could have saved the U.S. government the $30 million spent on the Mueller report to determine whether or not the Russian government colluded with […]
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