The subtitle of this book is “Two Rival Spies and the Secret Plot to Build a Confederate Navy”, and it does read somewhat like a spy thriller. Most of the action happens in, of all places, Liverpool, England. The American Consul assigned to Liverpool, which had a number of companies who were very good at Read More
Month: September 2024
Democracy’s Data, by Dan Bouk
This book is a little different from most of the books I have reviewed. You can tell by the subtitle: “The Hidden Stories in the U.S. Census and How to Read Them”. Bouk looks primarily at the 1940 census, but he looks at much more than that. He wanted to look deeply into a census Read More