Bøger af Jim Lacey

Keep from All Thoughtful Men overturns much accepted historical dogma on how World War II strategy was planned and implemented. It is taken for granted that the Axis powers were defeated by an avalanche of munitions that poured forth from pitiless American factories. So it is amazing that the story of how this "miracle of production" was organized and integrated into Allied strategy and operations remains untold. Keep from All Thoughtful Men is the first book that tells how revolutions in both statistics and finance changed forever the nature of war. While the book relates the overall story of how economics dictated war planning at the highest levels, more specifically it tells how three obscure economists came to have more influence on the conduct of World War II than the Joint Chiefs. Because military historians rarely understand economics and economic historians just as rarely involve themselves with the details of war, there has never been a military history that shows how economics influenced the planning of strategy and the conduct of any war. This is sadly true of even World War II, which has been called by Paul Samuelson, "The Economist's War."

The Zazan Puzzle is an entertaining page-turner. Ex-navy pilot Jenny Jackson is sent to Wyndham University in Connecticut as a fledgling federal agent, but her bossy senior partner is not much into sharing information, and Jenny finds herself in a puzzle with some of the pieces missing. What she took to be an assignment protecting a controversial Latin American poet turns out to include an assassination plot at the Wyndham graduation, the shipment of cocaine and hazardous material on an attack submarine, strange goings-on at the American Embassy in Switzerland, and murder in a Manhattan art gallery. The Zazan Puzzle is cheerful, romantic at times, and full of surprises.

This little book is a lively, autobiographical account by Jim Lacey, retired college teacher, novelist, sailor, lousy golfer, raconteur, sojourner abroad for some years, and resident of Brooklyn, New York, and romantic Willimantic, Connecticut. It documents a world that has vanished and which may seem as alien as Jupiter to those who tweet and carry smart phones.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Castleknock and Blanchardstown, the main settlements in the Barony of Castleknock were small villages whose trade was focused mainly on agriculture.