Poker, Beef Jerky and Death
by Colson Whitehead
Recommended by Gretchen Rubin
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Humor, Sports, and Fiction.
The Noble Hustle is Pulitzer finalist Colson Whitehead?s hilarious memoir of his search for meaning at high stakes poker tables, which the author describes as ?Eat, Pray, Love for depressed shutins.? On one level, The Noble Hustle is a familiar species of participatory journalisma longtime neighborhood poker player, Whitehead was given a $10,00...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Humor, Sports, and Fiction.
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Gretchen Rubin
“Along with "The Biggest Bluff" by @mkonnikova, @colsonwhitehead's terrific book "The Noble Hustle" has inspired me to want to learn to play poker. Wish me luck.”
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“Accidental Presidents offers eight narrative portraits of men who succeeded to the U.S. presidency without election, using anecdote-rich scenes and readable context to show how personality and circumstance interact with office power. It’s strongest as a set of self-contained stories that make succession stakes concrete for non-specialist readers; it does not prioritize dense archival argument or exhaustive methodology, so expect some interpretive generalizations and repeated themes across cases. Use it for fast historical orientation rather than scholarly deep-dives.”
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