The Russian Journal by Steinbeck is a timeless reading about the US-Russia relationship, fake news, and the people diplomacy. How much do you know about it?
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Replying to @ChiefScientist
I suppose you mean this Russian Journal as quintessential fake news itself: left-wing journalists letting KGB handlers guide them and write the names of anyone who'd blab to them, then taking the result at face value. Give me some Custine.
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Replying to @fare
Hmm my reading so far does not suggest they are gullible. I love Custine as much as anything on Russia, and these guys did a good job reporting what they saw as they declared. Obviously Custine had more access and venom, & Steinbeck style is why America beat France in the world.
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Replying to @ChiefScientist @fare
There's nothing France produced that rivals simplicity, to-the-pointedness, strength and vigor of Hemingway and Steinbeck, and reading it explains a lot what works in the modern world and why the US is still full of vitality and youthful energy vs old Europe...
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France does not celebrate simplicity, that's true and sad. That's probably why Bastiat is better known abroad. (And why I moved to the US.)
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