{"id":7467,"date":"2017-12-04T22:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7467"},"modified":"2017-12-04T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T04:45:16","slug":"surrounded-by-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=7467","title":{"rendered":"SURROUNDED BY BOOKS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In my Amazon review of John Lukacs terrific book I wrote:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>If all historians wrote like Lukacs, more people would read history. Insightful and full of practical implications.\u00a0 I enjoyed my reread of this fine book as much as the initial time through.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>So here are poignant and penetrating reflections from the author of one of my favorite books, <em>Five Days in London: May 1940<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Five-Days-London-May-1940\/dp\/0300084668\">https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Five-Days-London-May-1940\/dp\/0300084668<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/2017\/December\/41\/12\/magazine\/article\/10842995\/?utm_content=buffer97f8d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/www.chroniclesmagazine.org\/2017\/December\/41\/12\/magazine\/article\/10842995\/?utm_content=buffer97f8d&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my Amazon review of John Lukacs terrific book I wrote: If all historians wrote like Lukacs, more people would read history. Insightful and full of practical implications.\u00a0 I enjoyed my reread of this fine book as much as the initial time through. So here are poignant and penetrating reflections from the author of one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7467"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7470,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7467\/revisions\/7470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}