The Gun Nut’s reading list
My neighbor Jim, a retired political science professor, mentioned that he had been finding most of his good reading recently on a Field & Stream blog called "The Gun Nut." Readers of this blog will be familiar with many of the books listed here, but it always interesting to see what others are saying about ...
My neighbor Jim, a retired political science professor, mentioned that he had been finding most of his good reading recently on a Field & Stream blog called "The Gun Nut." Readers of this blog will be familiar with many of the books listed here, but it always interesting to see what others are saying about certain books. The comments also are interesting. Lots of what you'd expect, but also some surprises.
My neighbor Jim, a retired political science professor, mentioned that he had been finding most of his good reading recently on a Field & Stream blog called "The Gun Nut." Readers of this blog will be familiar with many of the books listed here, but it always interesting to see what others are saying about certain books. The comments also are interesting. Lots of what you’d expect, but also some surprises.
And here is another reading list, from one of the most dangerous men in the United States.
And then, to help calm you down, here are Starbuck’s MattisCats.
Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1
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