It was a good Christmas even though we did not sit down at a table for the usual feast. That newfangled “Zoom” let us all interact and worked well enough for the kind of year it is. Mary and I send this picture out to Facebook land to wish you the best for the holiday season. The other picture shows me with two gifts, my brand new navy blue blazer and holding up a book she gave me - Saving Freedom: Truman, The Cold War, and the Fight for Western Civilization.
I remember Truman as I entered the age of remembering. Not thought of very highly then, but now elevated in history’s eyes, Truman became very consequential. Joe Scarborough put together a nice book about his administration’s coping with a muscular Russia at this time. I’ve already learned one thing in reading. President Herbert Hoover came away from the presidency as a vilified man, but Truman hired him to help with the European refugee crisis in which he did a fine job. I’m looking forward to getting deeper into the book.
A couple other books came my way, but I’ve not gotten into them yet - His Very Best: Jimmy Carter a Life by Johnathan Alter and The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land by Thomas Asbridge. I’ll be busy reading. Plus I’ve got a large 350 page PDF from the Univ of Nevada Press to read for a Western Writers review - Saints, Sinners, and Sovereign Citizens: The Endless War over the West’s Public Lands. Whew.
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