All of this and a lot more have been captured in a readable, compact book on the fall of Jon Corzine and MF Global (MFG).
Damrosch offers perhaps a slightly sweeter, more progressive, less religious subject, though, in fairness, the fluidity and ambivalence of Tocqueville's thought are very hard to contain within the form of what is an elegantly compact book.
But now that I've shelved my Filofax in favor of a calendar program that seems somehow to flatten existence, I realize that another year is passing without my building up the compact book of a year's worth of Filofax pages that, every December, I used to wrap in a rubber band and put on a shelf, just as my new refills came in the mail.
Still, you can breeze through this compact book and come away with an entertaining shot of history beyond the obvious fact lousy husbands can make great presidents and vice versa.
Envelope Poems by Emily Dickinson (2016): "Stark in its design, this compact book features photographs of the poems Dickinson hand-wrote on the fronts, backs, and insides of envelopes.
If Obama has not already read this great, compact book he might find renewed inspiration in Williams's large vision and detailed perception of the United States and its past.
Now 58, he may be ideally positioned for the subject matter, just close enough to be agitated by its looming personal relevance and still far enough away for it to require the imaginative feats he performs in this compact book.
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