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A savvy operator and an extremely ambitious man, he set out to convince Congress and the American public that a terrible new drug menace was threatening the country, one that required immediate action by a well-funded Federal Bureau of Narcotics.
Smoke Signals
Martin A. Lee
Our days are spent trying to “get through” tasks, in order to get them “out of the way,” with the result that we live mentally in the future, waiting for when we’ll finally get around to what really matters—and worrying, in the meantime, that we don’t measure up, that we might lack the drive or stamina to keep pace with the speed at which life now seems to move. “The spirit of the times is one of joyless urgency,” writes the essayist Marilynne Robinson, who observes that many of us spend our lives “preparing ourselves and our children to be means to inscrutable ends that are utterly not our own.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The name “Bikini Kill” was a reference to Bikini Atoll, the coral reef in the Marshall Islands where the US government tested nuclear weapons after forcibly repatriating inhabitants. The military, Hanna writes, “taped a picture of Rita Hayworth to the side of one of the bombs, an act against Hayworth’s will that left her known as a ‘bombshell.’ ”
Girl on Girl
Sophie Gilbert
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