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Okay so i did the math. The Art of the Deal hardcover is 6.4"width x 9.4"height x 1.1"thick, Fire and Fury hardcover is 6.5"width x 9.5"height x 1" thick. everything is less than 1/8" larger on F&F but that is such a small amount that it wouldn't even really be noticable
Drumpf: Fart of the Deal hardcover @ amazon
Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House hardcover @ amazon
the best way to do this is to buy both at like barns and noble or something and keep the receipt for AOTD and carefully keep the dust jacket on F&F so you can return AOTD to the store, or just keep it on the shelf and tell your kids that they can do anything they want in life as even morons can be elected into office.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert Massie is a classic, I highly recommend it!
I'm currently reading this which has a pretty good chapter dedicated to it:
<strong>https://www.amazon.co.uk/What-Do-You-Royal-Family/dp/1785904914</strong>
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Spoiler: the answer is "be an upper-class privately educated Tory"
https://www.amazon.com/Princess-True-Story-Behind-Saudi/dp/0967673747
Similar cases, the original pakistani case i cant find right now.
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>he didn't think "I'm going to create a world and then later after that I'm going to set a story in it".
That's exactly what he did! Dude you're just straight up lying saying that's false.
When he was attending King Edward's school, he and his friends had a group called TCBS. And every month he would showcase the world and lore he was creating based on Norse Mythology and Old English folklore.
Pick up a book once in awhile bud and stop spreading flase information.
>But that's not "world-building",
Ok so constructing a language, creating calendars, genealogies for fake people, and creating his own pantheon and mythology isn't world building... got it bud.
There are many, but the closest thing to an authorized biography is the Humphrey Carpenter one. Carpenter was the one to actually visit Tolkien and interview him over the course of a couple of years. It's only not considered an authoritative biography because Tolkien insisted he wasn't important enough to warrant having his biography made. Actually I just looked up the link to the book on Amazon and it is now being sold as a biography which is hilarious.
His letters are where you really begin to realize oh my Lord this man was a Saint. The best place to start is also by Humphrey Carpenter.
As said above I'm not a US citizen looking disadainfully on the UK. I'm English. Having just read a book by the RH Norman Baker (former MP and Privy counsellor) called "And what do you do" I can say with some confidence I stand by what I said regardless of the downvotes.
It's as enlightening of the royal family as our parliamentary system. I strongly recommend it. If you don't think we live in an elective dictatorship then read it. Read about the powers of The Crown and therefore the government and therefore the Prime minister.
Having just read a book by the RH Norman Baker (former MP and Privy counsellor) called "And what do you do" I can say with some confidence I stand by what I said regardless of the downvotes.
It's as enlightening of the royal family as our parliamentary system. I strongly recommend it.
My parents were in Book of the Month Club in the 1960s. Nicholas and Alexandra, by Robert Massie, showed up. Ten year old me has been a history nerd ever since.
https://www.amazon.com/Nicholas-Alexandra-Classic-Account-Romanov/dp/0345438310
For anyone interested in this period of European history, this book is a fantastic look at the relationship between the British, German, and Russian royal families in the lead-up to World War I.
https://www.amazon.com/Dreadnought-Britain-Germany-Coming-Great/dp/0345375564
I think it's out of print. There's no audio book, but it was engaging enough that it's one of the few books I've read recently that I didn't listen to. I had no interest in that era of history before I picked that book up.
>That is, clans that descend from older brothers have more power than clans descended from younger brothers. There is one ruling clan who dominates all other clans. Usually inequalities between men and women are much higher (think like Ghenghis Khan like). The ruler or chief has great control over all other men and women in the chiefdom.
The sources that I know of differ in their depiction of Genghis Khan's society. There is a book by Jack Weather ford that says that the women of the Khan household where the ones who were in charge of Genghis's empire: https://www.amazon.com/Secret-History-Mongol-Queens-Daughters/dp/0307407160/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=The+Mongol+queens&qid=1568957642&sr=8-1
Well, if you like the biographies, you might want to check out [this book about the 3 emperors ](www.amazon.com/dp/1400079128/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_9o.2AbG165JKH) at the center of it all. Most people don’t realize that the major involved parties were led by cousins.
That's actually super interesting. I knew Sparta was more gender equal and that at least some of that was due to the whole warrior culture thing, but it's a really interesting topic.
Come to think of it, most of the other pre-20th century cultures that were fairly egalitarian were also warrior cultures or nomads. The Huns and Vikings are both pretty good examples - and there's a very fascinating book on the Mongol Queens that is available here.
There's a really good book called George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm: Three Cousins that talks about their relationships, the politics of the time, and how WWI happened between their countries.
Great description of what happened.
For anyone interested in reading about the last great naval gunboat arms race, Dreadnought is awesome.
> no one knows or cares who he is.
Arrogant Millennials only know about the "The Apprentice".
However, many adults have known about Trump for 30 years or so.
For example, the bestselling "Art of the Deal" was published way back in 1987.
Actually it was a book titled The Wars of the Roses by Alison Weir. The character who most struck me out of her book was Margaret of Anjou due to her similarities with Cersei Lannister.
It's a terrible conspiracy, and they should be ashamed of themselves.
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman is a great book, if you're interested! I need to get his other books on the family.
Nicholas and Alexandra is about the last Tsar of Russia, the politics and relationships leading up to the Bolshevik Revolution, and the effect it had on the family and the nation. I read it in college and loved it.
Catherine the Great has a number of good biographies on her, Amazon should be able to list a few. Her reign and most of her life are well documented. I liked this one. Vlad the Impaler might be a little more difficult, I've never looked though.
This is absolutely right. I mentioned this briefly in my comment pitching Castles of Steel and Dreadnought. These are the two Massie books on the subject.
Dreadnought is the story of the naval arms race leading up to world war 1. It covers the development of the HMS dreadnought, and how this revolutionary ship immediately rendered the navies of the world obsolete. This effectively meant that Germany didn't need to build 500 ships to catch up to the British, they just needed to have comparable numbers of Dreadnought-calibre ships. This started a race on all sides, and caused Britain to end splendid isolation and build alliances to ensure naval supremacy, etc. Really great book on the naval aspect leading up to world war 1.
Castles of steel is the story of how the navies conducted themselves during world war 1. It is a very different book from dreadnought, but there's so much more to ww1 naval action than u-boats and Jutland.
Both are great books. Castles of steel more closely answers the question about actual naval combat in world war 1. But if you're going to read just one, go with Dreadnought.
After the black plague, I've read that many marriages took place before the age of 14. I read about one girl who was on her third marriage at age 11.
I read it in this book on the Wars of the Roses. Not a bad book. Definitely a confusing time. Unless it was a bad book, for making the time seem more confusing than it was?
Not exactly biography, but utterly fascinating (to me, anyway): Nicholas and Alexandra.
Well, I don't think that Tolkien had any interest in making his creation explicitly a pre-historic tale of our world / Europe. If I recall correctly, he stated that it was a creation myth for England, something that never were, but might have been. I don't know where I read that, maybe in his biography by Carpenter.
But it is quite obvious that his own experience influenced him. Since he was English, and he created something "from the past", it is only natural that whatever he created was influenced by his NW-european / english past past.
For anyone interested in finding out more about some of the shit that goes down in Saudi might want to read this
I read it and it's nuts.