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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Modern Scholar: The People’s Dynasty – Culture and Society in Modern China by Robert J Shepherd

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  • May 11, 2015

The state-directed opening of the Chinese economy in 1979 led to a number of radical […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Ayatollah’s Beg to Differ: The Paradox of Modern-Day Iran by Hooman Majd

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  • October 1, 2014

http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/The-Ayatollah-Begs-to-Differ-Audiobook/B002V8H8VI I read this book with a great deal of interest and fascination into the […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Dereliction of Duty by Robert Patterson

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  • May 10, 2014

      http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction/Dereliction-of-Duty-Audiobook/B006OBVBSY   While I’m not the biggest Bill Clinton fan, it’s pretty […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – China Shakes The World by James Kynge

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  • May 3, 2014

    http://www.audible.com/pd/Business/China-Shakes-the-World-Audiobook/B004JW1ZG8   This is another in the great line of books that depict […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Great Blunders In History: USS Indianapolis by The History Channel

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  • January 12, 2014

  http://www.audible.com/pd/History/Great-Blunders-in-History-Audiobook/B0036I53GE     Once again, The History Channel takes us on a behind the […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – The Modern Scholar: World War 1 by John Ramsden

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  • July 15, 2013

I found this book to be fascinating as far as the author, John Ramsden, taking […]

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James Donaldson’s Book Review – Nixon and Mao by Margaret McMillan

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  • June 14, 2013

1972 seems like eons ago, but in reality, it wasn’t that long ago when these […]

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