Want to know what books Brent Glass recommends on their reading list? We've researched interviews, social media posts, podcasts, and articles to build a comprehensive list of Brent Glass's favorite book recommendations of all time.
Two years into the voyage, the Jeannette's hull was breached by an impassable stretch of pack ice, forcing the crew to abandon ship amid torrents of rushing of water. Hours later, the ship had sunk below the surface, marooning the men a thousand miles north of Siberia, where they faced a terrifying march... more
Brent GlassWhich country could be the first to reach the North Pole? (Source)
Brent GlassThis book is a survey of American history on the theme of freedom, and how that word has changed in meaning, depending on what period of time we’re talking about. (Source)
Brent GlassTed Morgan’s book emphasises the fact there were multiple settlements and multiple beginnings of American history. (Source)
Built to join the rapidly expanding cities of New York and Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Bridge was thought by many at the start to be an impossibility destined to fail if not from insurmountable technical problems then from political corruption. (It was the heyday of Boss Tweed in New York.)
But the Brooklyn Bridge was at once the greatest engineering triumph of the age, a...
moreMichael LoppA fascinating read about when bridges were still in beta. (Source)
Brent GlassEven though you know what the ending is, he creates a dramatic sense of just what it took to bring this bridge into being and to complete it. (Source)
A rare and remarkable cultural history of World War I that unearths the roots of modernism
Dazzling in its originality, Rites of Spring probes the origins, impact, and aftermath of World War I, from the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring in 1913, to the death of Hitler in 1945. Recognizing that The Great War was the psychological turning point . . . for modernism as a whole, author Modris Eksteins examines the lives of ordinary people, works of modern literature, and pivotal historical events to redefine the way we look at our past...
moreJohn CusackGreat book ⬇️ RT @PuddockII: Wow. https://t.co/EF6Iyc0Kmc (Source)
Jonathan BoffWhat this book does is it views the war as a cultural phenomenon, rather than a military phenomenon. Eksteins is a cultural historian who thinks in terms of literature, music, plastic arts, and so on. (Source)
Brent GlassWhat the Civil War was about was mass killing on a scale that we had never ever dreamed of. (Source)
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