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defacto7

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42. Yes... Reiss. It's quite an adventureous life.

Tue Dec 12, 2017, 09:39 PM

Dec 2017

Reiss doesn't pretend to portray this as a perfect history. But considering his exhaustive research there's no one who could know as much as he about the life of this amazing genius who wrote some great material under multiple aliases and survived from a child by morphing into different personalities. Blood and Oil in the Orient by Essad Bey, one of Nussimbaum's aliases, is still available (not the new one by M. Klare)

In my opinion The Orientalist is one of the most underrated books I've ever come across. It gave me a perspective on the early 20th century I would not have had otherwise. Extremely well researched and well written.

BTW, sorry for crashing the fiction group with non fiction. I just saw the heading. NF isn't as popular unfortunately.

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