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Dec 22, 2024 | 
robkhenderson.com | Robert Greene |Jonathan Haidt |Jonathan Rosen |Rob Henderson
You’ll have to open this post in a separate tab, as Substack tells me this post is too long for email. Nearly five years have passed since I launched this newsletter in January of 2020. As I mentioned in this Substack Grow interview, back then it was hosted on MailChimp before I moved it over to Substack in April of 2022. After the first year, it accrued about 7 thousand subscribers. After two years, there were 14 thousand subscribers. By the end of year three, there were 27 thousand.
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Aug 13, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Benjamin Nathans |Robert Greene |Jack Weatherford
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | C.L. Skach |Bill Maher |Robert Greene
Necessary reading for those who wish to foster civil discourse and societal cooperation. A constitutional scholar offers insights into why she believes that laws have become untenable “substitutes for our own judgement and collective action.”The law has long been considered the backbone of a “healthy, stable [social] order,” but Skach argues its rigidity has also been detrimental to the development of a fully engaged citizenry.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Martin Dugard |Robert Greene |Jack Weatherford
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Pamela D. Toler |Tom Clavin |Robert Greene
A fascinating portrait of a trailblazing reporter who was an eyewitness to history. A biography of Sigrid Schultz (1893-1980), who reported from Germany from the 1920s to the end of World War II. Toler, a translator and author of Heroines of Mercy Street, provides an adept, engaging portrait of her subject. Schultz was born in Chicago, the daughter of a Norwegian painter and his German-born wife.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Ruth Whippman |Jennette McCurdy |Robert Greene
The heartbreaking story of an emotionally battered child delivered with captivating candor and grace. The former iCarly star reflects on her difficult childhood. In her debut memoir, titled after her 2020 one-woman show, singer and actor McCurdy (b. 1992) reveals the raw details of what she describes as years of emotional abuse at the hands of her demanding, emotionally unstable stage mom, Debra.
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Jun 1, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Paul Scheer |Robert Greene
An energetic and immensely helpful overview of working life and its challenges. Calhoun-Senghor presents a comprehensive guide to joining a new workplace and happily staying there. The author draws on his 40 years of experience in legal and government work, including a stint in the U.S. Department of Commerce during the Clinton administration, in order to distill the basics of finding a job, as well as starting it, liking it, and keeping it.
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May 28, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Joshua Leifer |Emmanuel Acho |Robert Greene
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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May 4, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Maureen Callahan |Jack Weatherford |Robert Greene
If the authors are serious, this is a silly, distasteful book. If they are not, it’s a brilliant satire. The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter and former editor at Esquire (Elffers, a book packager, designed the volume, with its attractive marginalia).
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Garrett Graff |Robert Greene |Tom Clavin
A timely reminder of the cost of war, as well as the bravery of those who stormed the beaches all those decades ago. A sprawling history of D-Day from the point of view of participants on both sides. “There have only been a handful of days since the beginning of time on which the direction the world was taking has been changed for the better in one 24-hour period by an act of man. June 6th, 1944, was one of them.” So recalled Andy Rooney, then a war correspondent.
