Comments on: Ruined by success http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/18/ruined-by-success/ What History’s Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success And Failure Sat, 26 May 2012 22:08:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: andreaskluth http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/18/ruined-by-success/#comment-385 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:25:33 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=737#comment-385 Fantastic suggestions, Siddhartha and Christopher. Let me dig into those a bit….

]]> By: Christopher http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/18/ruined-by-success/#comment-384 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:54:40 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=737#comment-384 Will you be including Malcolm X in your book? Now THERE was someone who transformed himself through adversity.

In Malcolm’s case, it was being put in prison, where he educated himself through years of voracious and deep reading, and emerged from prison a totally different person from the street criminal he had been.

His is no better example of the power of reading to transform.

]]> By: Siddhartha http://andreaskluth.org/2008/11/18/ruined-by-success/#comment-383 Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:29:10 +0000 http://andreaskluth.wordpress.com/?p=737#comment-383 The Italian journalist, Riccardo Orizio, did an entertaining job of tracking down past dictators. Some of them living in quite the shambles that you would never expect from a former head of state.
Talk of the Devil: Encounters with Seven Dictators by Riccardo Orizio.

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