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"Revolution Of Nihilism - Warning To The West", by Hermann Rauschning. This is an analysis of National Socialism in Germany by a former Nazi official, who became disenchanted and left. The German language edition came out shortly before the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. The...

I am currently trying to control my anger over Israel's latest exercise in weapons testing in Gaza, and the border exercise in hypocrisy, by reading THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MONSANTO, by Marie-Monique Robin, FURY, by G.M. Ford, and LYDIA BAILEY, by Kenneth Roberts. All excellent so far...

Central Avenue Breakdown - Lionel Hampton Orch.

THE SHADOW OF THE SHADOW, by Paco Ignacio Taibo II This is a terrific book. It is a very different mystery set in Mexico in 1922, during the Obregon regime, after ten years of chaos and revolution. The protagonists are four friends who meet nightly at a bar in the Majestic Hotel in Mexico...

The Stray Lamb, by Thorne Smith.

THE RISE OF SCIENTIFIC PHILOSOPHY, by Hans Reichenbach. Great book in beautifully clear, lucid prose. Includes a critique of the classic philosophers. If, as I, you had some issues with Plato, et al. in college, you will like Reichenbach a lot. He was one of the leaders of the logical...

Here are some books on WWII. I have included some that do not fit within your criteria that never the less, you should find of interest 1. AND I WAS THERE, by Admiral Edwin Layton. Layton was the intelligence officer for the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor during the period prior to and after...

Straighten Up And Fly Right - Nat "King" Cole

Dark Is The Night - Toni Arden

The blues are a big part of the foundational material of jazz. When jazz gets too far from the blues, and forgets how to swing, it becomes unlistenable for me. Not unlike the statement by, I believe, Beethoven, that when symphonic music gets too far from the dance, it becomes decadent. Here are...