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TRE Spring04 Ideas and Information for Readers June 2011 “Our 21 st Year” Dear Friends, Reviews in This Issue DRESSING DOWN IN AMERICA Mark Twain said famously, “Clothes make the man” and added “Naked • A Jane Austen Education (Deresiewicz) people have little or no influence on society.” George Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in • The Emperor of All Maladies (Mukherjee) Company and Conversation (based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits in 1595) included the following: • Broken (Slaughter) “Wear not your cloths, foul, ripped or dusty but see they be brushed once every day at least and take heed that you • The Tiger’s Wife (Obreht) approach not to any uncleanness.” Obviously, the admonitions of Twain and Washington are being ignored as the • The Ripening Sun (Atkinson) manner many choose to dress themselves today continues to deteriorate. The simple civility of dressing well, and • A Question of Belief (Leon) • The Pursuit of Italy (Gilmour) showing some respect to others in the process has been lost. Grown men wearing baseball caps (some on back - • The Last Lion (Manchester) ward), the sporting of tattered jeans, the unshaven look, the proliferation of flip-flops (how do they keep their feet • The Dressmaker of Khair Khana clean?), grubby T-shirts and sweat pants, sloppy grooming, dress shirts worn outside of trousers, showing under - (Tzemach Lemmon) garments, and tattoos (excuse me, “body art”). All well and good if you are mowing the lawn or attempting to • The Brigade (Blum) emulate the homeless, but in churches, restaurants, business environments, and other public places? Some seem to • Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Laurence) view self-presentation as a pointless concern. The “casualization” of America makes for a grim scene and we can • Pacific Glory (Deutermann) only hope that better attention to appearance and good manners might increase, bringing with it a boost in civility • How Italian Food Conquered the World (Mariani) and respect for others. We dinosaurs really do notice. • Vienna Blood (Tallis) • The Social Animal (Brooks) NORTH OF THE BORDER We’ve been keeping an eye on our neighbors to the north where Canadian • Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand (Simonson) Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Tories swept to a landslide victory in recent elections giving them a majority • Sovereign (Sansom) in Parliament. The Harper-planned corporate tax cuts will now go ahead with a 2011 reduction to 16.5% this • Leaving Van Gogh (Wallace) year and 15% in 2012 (The sales tax was earlier reduced from 7% to 5%). Harper wants to make Canada an • The Sublime Engine (Amidon) • The Emperors of Chocolate (Brenner) S energy superpower, allowing and encouraging the development of the country’s rich oil and mineral deposits. • Colonel Roosevelt (Morris) E Canada has avoided the debt explosion now crippling the U.S. and Europe, and with its tax cuts and energy • The Mayor of Casterbridge (Hardy) N development, allowed the country to grow at a faster pace in the fourth quarter of 2010 than any other G-7 • The Most Noble Adventure (Behrman) I country. Canada also has the lowest deficit and strongest currency of the group. Canada can now be expected, • The Candy Bombers (Cherny) L it would seem, to continue reshaping economic policy, reform its budget-busting national healthcare, and • When the Killing’s Done (Boyle) • Endgame E effect cuts in personal income taxes, all of which should further boost its economy. (Brady) • In the Garden of Beasts (Larson) H …AND SOUTH OF THE BORDER The growth forecast of Chile, rebounding from last year’s major • A Drop of the Hard Stuff (Block) T earth quake, has now been raised to 6.8% in 2011. Latin Business Chronicle ranks Chile as having the best • Minding Frankie (Binchy) business climate in Latin America in 2011. Why? Pension privatization, strong free trade policies, a focus on • Charlotte Moss Decorates (Moss) N productivity (repeatedly emphasized by Chilean President Sebastian Pinera), an emphasis on improving the • Blood, Bones, and Butter (Hamilton) E corporate environment, and economic freedom. In addition, Chile has nurtured growth by reducing the size • Simple Abundance (Ban Breathnach) E of government, cut government spending, and kept corporate taxes relatively low (now 18%). While Canada • Flat Belly Diet Cookbook (Vaccariello) W and Chile flourish, the U.S. flounders with low/no growth and high unemployment, has shut down energy Features T exploration/production, fails to ratify fre trade agreements, spends with impunity, and has (it seems) priorities • Jane’s Selections E other than economic growth and full employment for our country. • TRE Favorites… A Decade Ago B • Reading and Re-Reading the Classics . AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM We noted a newspaper article recently by Richard Cohen, columnist • Origins of Words and Phrases for The Washington Post, entitled “Exceptionalism is the Enemy of Compromise.” Alluding to some of our • La Bella Italia . failures, he mocked American exceptionalism and made the inane assertion that the term has been adopted • Pronunciation for the Careful Speaker . by some to mean that America, alone among the nations, is beloved of God and, “therein lies the danger of • The Words We Use… And Misuse G American exceptionalism. It discourages compromise, for what God has made exceptional, man must not • My Summer Reading List N alter.” Rubbish. American exceptionalism springs from the concept that America is qualitatively different • America the Beautiful I from other nations emanating from a uniquely American ideology based on its special brand of democracy, • A Medical Notebook D economic freedom, individual liberty, the freedom of choice, can-do attitudes, and the spirit of goodness and A generosity of the American people. Public policy should consider this spirit and build on the foundations of THE QUA RTERLY E our exceptionalism, rather than disavowing and trashing the notion. PUBLICATION R Sincerely, Subscribers-Only Password: FOR READERS WODEHOUSE BY READE RS Until September 2011 for June 2011 Stephen H. Ackerman, Publisher www.the-readers-exchange.com Volume XXI Issue 2 1 ©2011 The Readers Exchange BOOK REVIEWS TITLE Reviews and Ratings: Book reviews are written by the Publisher (SHA) or by one of the Contributing AUTHOR, NO. OF PAGES, Editors and attributed accordingly. The 0-10 rating system was developed to provide some sense of YEAR OF PUBLICATION, the level of satisfaction of a book compared with other books. This is not a sophisticated evaluation. PUBLISHER AND RATING The rating is based on writing, storytelling ability, and the overall impact of each reading experience. SOVEREIGN Sansom, both a British history professor and a formally trained lawyer (he practiced both professions) C.J. SANSOM has become a first rate historical mystery writer, generating a series of Tudor era (16th century) mysteries (2008, 662pp, that feature the dangerous missions of hunchbacked lawyer Mathew Shardlake, all in his service to the Macmillan) ever-changing power structure. The sequence of Sansom’s four books follows Britain’s history timeline 10 (Dissolution, Dark Fire, Revelation, and Sovereign —most available in Macmillan paperback); all four constitute a stellar series with a huge British audience led by the many accolades of no less than P.D. James. Any of the four deserve a review, and each a 10 rating, but I chose Sovereign because I thought it showcased the protagonist Shardlake in the clearest light. It is a remarkable feat to build a best-selling (in Britain) series around a noticeably deformed hero, but Sansom uses Shardlake’s deformity (and the many who mock him, the cruel Henry VIII included) to enhance Shardlake’s many strengths and unusual gifts. He is so smart, so kind, so savvy, and so tenacious that he not only surmounts his deformity but gains strength from it. Shardlake is one of the most compelling mystery protagonists I have yet to encounter. In Sovereign, Archbishop Cranmer commissions an unwilling Shardlake to accompany the mean spirited and graceless King Henry north to York (where his administration recently suppressed a rebellion) and then bring back (by ship) to the London Tower the lead conspirator so he can be tortured by world-class professionals and the necessary confessions extracted. Shardlake accepts this unhappy commission, convinced it is the lesser of evils before him, and brings it to what both he and Cranmer consider a success. The plot is gripping, the characters are compelling, and the historical background is riveting (though often not very pretty). (Contributing Editor William Lilley, III, Washington D.C.) THE TIGER’S WIFE This debut novel is a marvel! The fact that the author is just 25 makes it even more stunning. The story TEA OBREHT is set in the war torn Balkans somewhere resembling Belgrade and surrounding villages. Natalia, the (2011, 345pp, narrator, centers her story around her grandfather and their close relationship before he died. She weaves Random House) a tale of real tragedies and tow wonderful magical realism stories her grandfather had shared with her 9 when she was a child. One involves the improbable fable of a tiger that lived in the woods above a small village after its zoo cage was bombed opened. He and the young deaf mute widow of an abusive butcher form, according to village gossip, an unnatural relationship that seems to haunt the villagers and becomes the focus of all their misfortunes. Natalia’s grandfather had a treasured copy of Kipling’s The Jungle Book, which he carried with him always and read to her constantly as they spent many hours together at the zoo. The other story, just as unreal, revolves around a young man who could not die, but could tell others when they were about to expire. This book is so lush in its descriptions of both the characters and the setting that you can almost smell and hear it.
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