Book: Team Human Author: Douglas Rushkoff Review by: Lee Foster, Executive Director, Rialto Center for the Arts at Georgia State University Although I have been working in the performing arts industry for more than 20 years, my recent stint in the academic world at Georgia Tech demanded a return to my roots. I asked myself […]
Culture
Books 2019: Rethinking the European Origins of American Tolerance
Book: The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America Author: Russell Shorto Review by: Trevor Williams, Managing Editor, Global Atlanta Anyone who has been through fifth-grade civics would know that European thinkers incubated the American sense of reason and the religious tolerance […]
Books 2019: How and Why ‘My Fellow Americans’ Resounds Across the Pacific
Book: How to Hide an Empire: A History of The Greater United States Author: Daniel Immerwahr Reviewed by: Christopher N. Smith, Attorney at Law and Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Denmark in Georgia A global quest for guano. The need for coal fueling stations for a growing navy. An ascendant global power wishing to […]
Books 2019: Are the United States and China Destined for War?
Book: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap? Author: Graham Allison Review by: Bruce Allen, honorary consul of the Principality of Liechtenstein in Georgia As described by the eponymous Greek historian about the war between Athens and Sparta two and a half millennia ago, Thucydides’s trap is a situation where a rising […]
Books 2019: Understanding Latin America Through the Magic of Historical Fiction
Book: One Hundred Years of Solitude (Cien Años de Soledad) Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Review by: Jorge Fernandez, former vice president of global commerce at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, consultant at Pendleton Group My best book of 2019 came from re-reading the whimsical landmark novel by the Colombian Literature Nobel laureate, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which […]
Books 2019: Shedding New Light on an Old CIA and Mafia Plot to Kill Castro
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 […]
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 […]
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