/lit/ - Literature

>>14605369
The Forrestal Diaries are very good.
Kissinger.
Basically you just need to read a bunch of diaries and papers of important men.
Then you figure out slowly how things really work.

Presidential diaries

All of Henry Kissinger's work and the presidential diaries

>>13416447
The diaries I mentioned...
I read a ton of diaries as a hobby and these are the two most insightful. Forrestal was the first Sec. of Def. after WW2 and was head of the navy during the war. He was an insider in the organizing of the new world order for lack of a better phrase. Unreal how much is in that book.
Haldeman was Nixon's chief of staff, former ad executive from a major California ad agency. The degree of dog and pony show is unreal. Great insight into how Trump currently operates when it comes to the media. Nixon was a fucking machine and won the biggest landslide you've ever seen in 1972 based on marketing marketing and more marketing. I cannot recommend more highly these two books.

William Manchester, although popular, earned his popularity. Enough said.
>>13416532
Well...brainlet...you need a dictionary or some reference material contemporary to the books you are reading. Or, ideally you have that.
Words and meanings change over time and this is a hobby of mine. I actually just inventoried my dictionaries and I have 13, one almost every decade from 1850 on. Yes, I'm that based.