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Originally Posted by Luffy
My 5 star review of the best book I've read this year : The Path to Power by Robert A. Caro:-
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Master of the Senate was my favorite of these. I read it first in hard cover soon after it came out. Then I went back and read the others in paper and later the last one that was published. I have
The Power Broker in paper, started it years ago and hope to get back to it while I'm still around. I don't understand why it's not an ebook by now.
I finished Hilary Mantel's
The Mirror & the Light a few days ago. I enjoyed it very much and it took me about 3 weeks to read. The weakest part (to me) was the pages where the negotiations are going on for Henry VIII's 4th wife, Anne of Cleves.
I've just started
Cuba Libre!: Che, Fidel, and the Improbable Revolution That Changed World History by Tony Perrottet. In the intro he writes about Fidel's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1958, before the revolution. He was welcomed and apparently was a folk hero in those days. I was 7 then and either missed it, or it didn't make an impression. I did not know much about Che before I saw The Motorcycle Diaries.