Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Train-ridin' Biden at the movies
I was amused by this anecdote, more for what it says about Al Gore -- there's a shocker -- than Joe Biden.
4 Comments:
By 
, at
Wed Jan 07, 12:49:00 PM:
Didn't Dick Cheney shoot someone in the face for a seat at the movies? :)
By , at
Wed Jan 07, 01:24:00 PM:
TH,
Apropos of very little, but since I already degraded the quality of this comment thread, I'd like to ask your recommendation for a history book.
I just completed John Keegan's WWI booka nd that's the first overview I read of that war. I've read some WWI memoir and a lot of WWII books.
I would like to find a good (and accessible) volume about the years from 1919 to 1939, maybe with some concise info on the concrete ramifications of Sykes-Picot and the Balfour Declaration. I'd like info such as the year that Palestine is widely regarded to have started existing as independent post-Ottoman Palestine?
I'd also like something that is as unbiased as you can think of, maybe written after the end of WWII and before 1975. Or by a guy like Keegan.
Sorry for the irrelevance to this post. I hope you'll recommend something anyway. Thanks.
By 
TigerHawk, at
Wed Jan 07, 03:32:00 PM:
space, let me give that a little thought -- busy at the day job right now. I'll try to put a post up a bit later.
By Dawnfire82, at
Wed Jan 07, 06:21:00 PM:
If you're primarily interested in the Palestine/Trans-Jordan region pre-World War II, 'A History of Israel: From the Rise of Zionism to Our Time' is a good read. (though it both under and overshoots your given timeline)
"I'd like info such as the year that Palestine is widely regarded to have started existing as independent post-Ottoman Palestine?"
Easy. Never.
Or, answer #2, 1948, when it became Israel. But many people don't like that answer.
The British mandate ended at 0800 May 14th, 1948. By 1600 May 14th, 1948 there was open Arab-Jewish warfare and David Ben Gurion was reading the Israeli Declaration of Independence.
