Elephants in the Room: Summer 2017 Reading from Director Steve Slick and Dr. Will Inboden

News | June 30, 2017

ISP Director Steve Slick and Clements Center Director William Inboden were recently featured in a Foreign Policy piece with a few of their suggested books for summer reading. 

Professor Slick’s Picks:

The Secret Life of Bletchley Park: The WWII Codebreaking Centre and the Men and Women Who Worked There, by Sinclair McKay
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal, by Ben Macintyre
The Last Station: Underground Railroad of Quaker Corner, compiled by William Roy Mock
The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes, by Bryan Burrough

Dr. Inboden’s Picks:

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam, by Mark Bowden
Patriotism is Not Enough: Harry Jaffa, Walter Berns, and the Arguments That Redefined American Conservatism, by Steven P. Hayward
Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain, by John Bew


To read more about these books, and see the complete list, please click here