{"id":9244,"date":"2021-12-08T00:59:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T06:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9244"},"modified":"2021-12-08T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T20:43:20","slug":"best-books-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=9244","title":{"rendered":"BEST BOOKS OF 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Many other books could be on this list,\u00a0and I did not include the dead authors who pushed and prodded in various ways (Tolkien, Chesterton, Augustine, even Marx).<\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong>In past years I have recommended a long list of my best reads for the year. This year, I decided to recommend only four books. There are many others I could recommend, but I thought it best to reduce my favorite reads to four so as not overwhelm you with possibilities for Christmas gifts!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Churchill and Orwell: The Fight for Freedom\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=1594206139\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>My interview is here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/we-the-fallen-people-an-interview-with-robert-mckenzie\/\">https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/we-the-fallen-people-an-interview-with-robert-mckenzie\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08WP8MTBJ\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Why We are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment (New Forum Books)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B08KWRGYRY\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>My interview with the authors can be found here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/why-we-are-restless\/\">https:\/\/mereorthodoxy.com\/why-we-are-restless\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Wonderfully written, beautifully illustrated, and balanced in the best sense of that word. And no, the author does not present a soft and squishy God!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"625\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"clipboard-write\" style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?asin=B086GWZ6CY\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many other books could be on this list,\u00a0and I did not include the dead authors who pushed and prodded in various ways (Tolkien, Chesterton, Augustine, even Marx). In past years I have recommended a long list of my best reads for the year. This year, I decided to recommend only four books. There are many [&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":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-favorite-books-annual-list"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244","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=9244"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9258,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9244\/revisions\/9258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}