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Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

Eric Hoffer Award Honors Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths

2021.05.19 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Cover of the book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths, with 3 medals

The Eric Hoffer Award announced last week that Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths has been named 1st Runner-Up for Legacy Nonfiction. This is the third Eric Hoffer award, as the book was previously named to the Short List for the Grand Prize, and as a Finalist for the Montaigne Medal. The book also currently enjoys a 4.9 … [Read more…]

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Ecology, Economics, and Delayed Gratification

2020.02.01 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Plant growing from a pile of coins.

Economics fails to explain why Homo economicus struggles with delayed gratification, but ecology can offer some historical perspectives.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Darwin Dada, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Wisdom

Starting Wars: Anger Manipulation

2020.01.07 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment
Starting Wars: Statue of Liberty with a Mushroom Cloud

Starting wars and anger manipulation benefit the powerful:  politically, economically, and ideologically.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Trump

Prologue, Part I: Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths

2019.06.18 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Detail from cover of the book, 'Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths' showing a severed head and a bloody scimitar-like blade

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: the ‘great men’ of history were really vicious criminals whose rule was, indeed, ‘the banality of evil’.

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Posted in: Odds & Ends Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

Kings, Conquerors: The Moderate Voice Interview

2019.06.01 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Banner for The Moderate Voice, a political website

“The term ‘must-read’ has been soooooo overused. But Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths is a must-read… must-own… and, most of all, a must-ponder.”
—Joe Gandelman

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Posted in: Books, Politics Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths Wins Two International Awards for Nonfiction

2019.05.21 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths, wins two Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths wins two international book awards for nonfiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, as a winner in ‘Current Events/Social Change’, and a finalist in ‘Historical Nonfiction’.

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Kicking the Can Down the Road, Cementing Cans

2019.03.04 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Kicking the can down the road, cementing cans.

When citizens want one thing and lobbyists want another, often we end up kicking the can down the road; we should be cementing cans after they’re kicked.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

The Problem with Historical Context

2019.02.13 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Detail of Delaroche's 'Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau' ("Napoléon abdicated in Fontainebleau"),

To understand our past, historical context is a critical starting point. But to design the future, it cannot also be the endpoint.

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: fundamentalism, Hammer Thinking, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

‘Talk Louisiana’ on WRKF, ‘From Bayou to Beltway’ on KRVS

2019.02.02 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Join author Joseph N. Abraham, MD on NPR affiliates WRKF & KRVS, talking politics and discussing his book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths.

Hear Joseph N. Abraham on ‘Talk Louisiana’ and ‘Bayou to Beltway,’ on NPR’s WRKF & KRVS, talking politics and his book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths.

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The Ideal & Romanticism

2017.06.22 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

How many of the Romanticists ever visited the peasants in winter? Did any of them bother to pass by their frozen shacks when there was not enough food, fuel, clothes or warmth? In its focus on the ideal, how much disease, starvation, and death did Romanticism miss, in the nature all around them, and in the homes of their poor neighbors? The Romantics are like all of us: we only see what we wish to see…

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Posted in: Biology, Knowledge Tagged: Hammer Thinking, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Wisdom
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