There aren’t many books I’ve read that I complete in one day.
Before yesterday, they were written by Messianic Jew Jonathan Cahn:
- The Harbinger
- The Paradigm
- The Oracle
- The Harbinger II
- The Return of the God
There are a couple of more I need to read.
They have been described as “prophetic fiction.”
Cahn ties current events (9-11is the first one) to Biblical analogies.
Before yesterday, I took on “Warlord” by Carol D’Este.
700 pages (with 45 pages of footnotes!) on Winstop Churchill’s role in England’s wara, starting with toy soldiers to the Boer War, World War I and World War II.
It is a balanced look at the pluses and minuses of the man.
Most people know of his oratorical leadership during the Second World War.
I was surprised to learn of the role Churchill played in convincing FDR to bring America in to the fight against Hitler.
The newest element I found in “Warlord” is how Churchill insisting on promoting non-strategic campaigns, which his staff before FDR entered the picture, opposed and after we entered the war Dwight David Eisenhower found seriously flawed.
One disastrous thrust he pulled off with Eisenhower’s knowledge–the invasion of Anzio south of Rome, but separated by a mountain range and a river. Churchill, not understanding the invasions had to include air, navy and army, sent in the Navy, which captured a beachhead, but remained pretty much trapped there without air cover.
Anyway, it took a week almost week to read, staring on a trip to Galena (my wife drove), reading while the rest of the crew shopped, reading on the way home, then several days to finish it.
It was time well spent.
So, what was I reading on Tuesday?
“How to Test Negative for Stupid And Why Washington Never Will” by U.S. Senator John Kennedy. (Not related to those other Kennedys as he had to explain in his first attempt at elective office as a Democrat.)
If you watch Fox News, you will have often seen him. He is often hilarious.
The book is basically an autobiography.
Not too far in, it reminded me of former State Senator Jack Schaffer’s autobiography.
They both elicited laughs when I read them.
Unfortunately, Schaffer has not put his excellent work on Amazon, so if you want to read it, you’ll have to find him at Liberty Self Storage, 4114 Illinois 176 in Crystal Lake (really Prairie Grove).
Kenney is a Republican U.S. Senator, switching form the Democratic Party to be a Republican before wining the second time he ran for the office in Louisiana.
The Louisiana way of talking interspersed through the book I found fascinating as are his interactions with President Trump.
Kennedy is an independent kind of guy, disagreeing with the President, but still able to do do it amiably.
And his interactions and characterizations of Senators from the other party and his own are sometimes priceless.
Anyway, if politics interest you–and I don’t know why you would be reading McHenry County Blog, if it didn’t–I recommend the book.
