The Pile Grows...

The pile of good books to read grows:

C.V. Wedgwood (1944), William the Silent: William of Nassau, Prince of Orange, 1533-84 (New York: Book-of-the-Month Club: 1842124013). http://exec/obidos/asin/1842124013/braddelong00

Perry Anderson (2005), Spectrum (London: Verso: ). http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/asin/1859845274/braddelong00

William the Silent is great. Spectrum less so (although the first essay--on Leo Strauss, Friedrich Hayek, Michael Oakeshott, and Karl Schmitt--was brilliant). All the while I was reading it, I kept on thinking how much better it would have been had Anderson finally written his sequel to Lineages of the Absolutist State.