Jeffrey Cleveland

“It is a good rule, after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between.” - C.S. Lewis

Just finished "Lorne: The Man Who Invented Saturday Night Live" by Susan Morrison a.co/0eUQbXW6

Marvelous discussion on matters related to the book and more: youtu.be/PAIhVfGbREA?si…

Just finished "The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the..." a.co/061yi0wv

Just finished reading “Horace” by David Armstrong a.co/d/08yns1d1

Just finished "Augustus: First Emperor of Rome" by Adrian Keith Goldsworthy a.co/0cJsJB6y

Just finished "The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and..." a.co/aXL9fEk

Just finished "Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare" a.co/eapJIa9

Just finished "Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of..." a.co/5p3kpqv

Just finished “The Retreat To Commitment” by William Warren Bartley III a.co/d/4LM8R9g

Just finished "Horace: Poet on a Volcano (Ancient Lives)" by Peter Stothard a.co/14hxVFu

Just finished "Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of..." a.co/9rEtO7l

Just finished "Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity" by David Bess... a.co/a17EWlg

This book has given me endless delight over the years, and still does. You're not too old for it, and few are too young for it. Makes you feel that just to be alive is to be part of a great, important tale, but a tale that can still be held easily in the mind and mulled over.

“You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”

Just finished “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen a.co/d/3Q5XRqD

Marvelous story, but it ends just before things get really interesting (published 2021)! Just finished "Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google..." a.co/8zy3gQI

“The day of death awaits all men; their time is brief and comes just once. But they can prolong their fame by action. This is the task of valor.” - Vergil

Just finished "The Aeneid" by Vergil, Virgil, Shadi Bartsch a.co/3DNjZU3

3 main takeaways: “Build strength *before* crisis” – A thriving economy is the real arsenal. Fresh from GM, William “Bull” Knudsen turned car factories into plane factories because the industrial might was already there. “Ingenuity beats central planners” – Even in wartime, top-down control failed; bottom-up problem-solvers delivered. Henry Kaiser, a construction man with zero shipbuilding experience, cut Liberty-ship build times from months to weeks. “Small hinges swing history” – The B-24 bomber went mass-production only when Ford’s Willow Run plant joined the effort, a twist of timing and personality that changed the war’s pace.

Just finished "Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in..." a.co/hokWDeG