What Chicago Boyz Readers Are Reading (August 2014)

Here is a list of the books, ebooks, music and videos ordered in August 2014 by Chicago Boyz readers via the links on this blog.

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A cumulative list of Chicago Boyz readers’ Amazon purchases is here.

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The Cosmopolitans

Twenty-four years after the release of his first feature, “Metropolitan,” and two years after the release of his fourth, “Damsels in Distress,” Whit Stillman—the cinema’s novelist of manners, who reveals deep and enduring patterns beneath the shimmer of apparent frivolities—has written, directed, and produced the twenty-six-minute pilot of a TV-like series, “The Cosmopolitans,” for Amazon (where it premières tomorrow). It has a classical setup—Americans and other foreigners, members of a self-anointed social whirl, tripping through Paris—that, from the start, Stillman makes entirely his own, rendering it both contemporary and anachronistic, of the moment and rooted in time.

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Deirdre McCloskey speaking on how the rich got rich, and how everyone else will too, at the Illinois Policy Institute, August 20, 2014

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This will be an excellent event. Deirdre McCloskey talking about her most recent book, Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can’t Explain the Modern World.

Her topic: How the rich got rich and how everyone else will too.

Get tickets here.

This is the message of America 3.0 as well, though we have our own spin.

The Illinois Policy Institute always puts on good events — including a modest charge for a great event and a very nice open bar.

This Wednesday, August 14, 2004, 6-8 p.m.

I hope to see you there.

Here is a short video of Deirdre McCloskey speaking, as a teaser trailer for the event.

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