Books How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question

Ten Days in the Hills I took forever to read this book but I think it was the nature of the book to do so. It is based on the Decameron, which I have never read, I just know that from what I know. The book had about a thousand characters (but only 10 days) and no plot at all, just a spinning of individual stories that all together added up both to a history and a moment in time, and a sort of paean to beauty in chaos. Set about the very beginning of the Iraq War and written not long after, its enormously prescient about our slip into the new dark ages. Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley

Toward the Inquisition: Essays on Jewish and Converso History in Late Medieval Spain Benzion Netanyahu(Benzion Mileikowsky), (born March 25, 1910, Warsaw, Russian Empire [now in Poland]—died April 30, 2012, Jerusalem), Polish-born Israeli historian and Zionist activist who was the father of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a longtime advocate (and one-time secretary) of Vladimir Jabotinsky, whose uncompromising Zionist Revisionist movement was pivotal in the fight for the state of Israel Toward the Inquisition: Essays on Jewish and Converso History in Late Medieval Spain by Benzion Netanyahu

A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation General Billy Mitchell, a World War I hero, was prescient when it came to the use of aircraft in the military. While many of his concerns, predictions and suggestions were correct, his delivery of them to the press, higher authority and others led to a charge of insubordination and a court-martial. His court-martial lasted seven weeks and cost the exorbitant amount of over $15,500. It dragged on nearly endlessly as the defense called dozens of witnesses A Question of Loyalty: Gen. Billy Mitchell and the Court-Martial That Gripped the Nation by Douglas C. Waller