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A blog about a book: Thoughts deep and shallow about triumph and disaster in life, through the eye of Hannibal the Carthaginian
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September 17, 2009
Alcibiades: cad, charmer, hero, foil to Socrates
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September 5, 2009
Writing a great draft (by crucifying my darlings)
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May 31, 2009
Tactics vs Strategy: MacArthur vs Truman
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March 7, 2009
In praise of wonderment
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February 21, 2009
Oh, he says, like Plutarch
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February 12, 2009
Birthday eulogy to Darwin
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January 9, 2009
Why I chose to write the book I’m writing
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January 7, 2009
Look who reads Plutarch
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January 5, 2009
Eleanor Roosevelt’s Liberalism
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December 29, 2008
Einstein, non-conformity and creativity
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December 12, 2008
Endurance
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November 18, 2008
Ruined by success
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November 3, 2008
The father of biography
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October 30, 2008
Backlash moment
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September 16, 2008
Pyrrhic victories
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September 1, 2008
The suffering of Frida Kahlo
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August 25, 2008
Hannibal’s life in eight minutes
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