FiveBooks Newsletter 91

Links to all our original FiveBooks interviews of the week before, plus
a pick of the best content on The Browser.
[1]FiveBooks weekly newsletter: Links to all our original FiveBooks
interviews of the week before, plus a pick of the best content on The
Browser.
Links:
1. http://thebrowser.com

FiveBooks at The Browser

Today on FiveBooks we invited political economist and commentator
[5]Robert Reich to discuss the crisis of democracy in America, and how
to solve it. "Massive inequality," he says, "is incompatible with
robust democracy."
Links:
5. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy

He joins the good company this week of writer John Carlin, considering
the legacy of Nelson Mandela in today's South Africa, gardener and TV
presenter [6]Monty Don, recommending five favourite gardening books,
and much more.
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books

Next week, look out for political philosopher John Gray on a critique
of utopia, cricketer Ed Smith on luck, and financial columnist and
blogger Barry Ritholz on Wall Street. Thanks for reading us!

FiveBooks News

[7]Robert Reich on Saving Capitalism and Democracy
Links:
7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy

Friday March 23

Three decades of growing inequality and collapsing public morality have
pitched America into crisis, imperilling its democracy. But there are
precedents for a way out, says Robert Reich [8]Continue reading…
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/robert-reich-on-saving-capitalism-and-democracy

[9]Monty Don on Favourite Gardening Books
Links:
9. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books

Thursday March 22

The presenter of the popular BBC series Gardener’s World shares his
favourite reads on gardening from childhood to today, and tells us that
we’re all bacteria when it comes to working with nature [10]Continue
reading…
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/monty-don-on-favourite-gardening-books

[11]Juliet Schor on Consumption and the Environment
Links:
11. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment

Wednesday March 21

The author of True Wealth suggests how we can rethink our patterns of
consumption and approach our relationship with nature in a new, less
damaging, way [12]Continue reading…
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/juliet-schor-on-consumption-and-environment

[13]John Carlin on Understanding Mandela and South Africa
Links:
13. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa

Tuesday March 20

Nelson Mandela was a most unusual, and unusually astute, leader, says
John Carlin. He used forgiveness as a political tool, in so doing
ensuring that South Africa avoided what could have been a bloodbath
[14]Continue reading…
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/john-carlin-on-understanding-mandela-and-south-africa

[15]Tim Weiner on the US Intelligence Services
Links:
15. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services

Sunday March 18

The job of the intelligence services is to understand others and help
leaders act more wisely, says the author of a new history of the FBI.
There’s also, he says, a balance to be struck between liberty and
security [16]Continue reading…
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-weiner-on-us-intelligence-services

[17]How One Man Escaped From A North Korean Prison Camp
Links:
17. http://b.rw/zXR09I

Blaine Harden | Guardian | 16 March 2012

Shin In Geun is probably the only person to have been born in, and
escape from, a North Korean camp for political prisoners. His account
of the cruelty and viciousness of life inside Camp 14 is harrowing
almost beyond belief [18]More like this
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/best