What we’re about
NOISY REALITY is a group to freely discuss history, politics, arts, international affairs and the issues of the day. These comments illustrate our approach:
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination. John Lennon
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard
Upcoming events (4)
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NOISY REALITY PRESENTS
Sunday, September 21st, 2025 at
1:00 PM East Coast Time
"CHALLENGING THE MYTHS OF US HISTORY'
Mark Egnal, Professor Emeritus, York UniversityInvite ZOOM Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09PUBLICATIONS
A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1988. Reprinted in paperback, 1989.Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North
American Growth*.* New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early
Canada*.* New York: Oxford University Press, 1998Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. New York: Hill
and Wang, 2009.
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A Mirror for History: How Novels Illuminate the Changing Outlook of
***Americans. ***Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024Challenging the Myths of US History: Seven Short Essays on the Past and Present-University of California Press- September 23, 2025
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NOISY REALITY PRESENTS
Sunday , September 21st, 2025 at
1:00 PM East Coast Time
“ Challenging the Myths of US History”
A conversation with Marc N Egnal, Professor emeritus of History at York University
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09Publications
A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1988.Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North
American Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early
Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009
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A Mirror for History: How Novels Illuminate the Changing Outlook of
Americans. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024.Challenging the Myths of US History: Seven Short Essays on the past and Present. University of California Press, 2025
ALL ARE WELCOME
- “ Challenging the Myths of US History”Link visible for attendees
NOISY REALITY PRESENTS
Sunday , September 21st, 2025 at
1:00 PM East Coast Time
“ Challenging the Myths of US History”
A conversation with
Marc N Egnal, Professor emeritus of History at York University
Invite ZOOM Link
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09Publications
A Mighty Empire: The Origins of the American Revolution. Ithaca, New
York: Cornell University Press, 1988.Divergent Paths: How Culture and Institutions Have Shaped North
American Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.New World Economies: The Growth of the Thirteen Colonies and Early
Canada. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War. New York: Hill and Wang, 2009
.
A Mirror for History: How Novels Illuminate the Changing Outlook of
Americans. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2024.Challenging the Myths of US History: Seven Short Essays on the past and Present. University of California Press, 2025
ALL ARE WELCOME
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NOISY REALITY PRESENTS
Sunday, September 28th, 2025 at
1:00 PM East Coast Time
"Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power”Timothy Wernig Ryback ,
Director, Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague
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https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86411768499?pwd=UitCdlJuWFR2QkZZTDVOQ2w0anVZUT09Timothy Wernig Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He previously served as the Deputy-Secretary General of the Académie Diplomatique Internationale in Paris, and Director and Vice President of the Salzburg Global Seminar. Prior to this, he was a lecturer in the Concentration of History and Literature at Harvard University. Ryback has a doctorate from Harvard.[1]
Ryback has written on European history, politics and culture for numerous publications, including The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.[1] He is also author of Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life, published in 2008, which has appeared in more than 25 editions around the world. His book, The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau was a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. Ryback is also author of Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, published in 1989. He has appeared in numerous television documentaries.
His 2024 book, Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power, explores the final days of the Weimar Republic and its transformation into Nazi Germany.[2] In The New Yorker review, Adam Gopnik wrote:
[T]he historian Timothy W. Ryback’s choice to make his new book, Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power (Knopf), an aggressively specific chronicle of a single year, 1932, seems a wise, even an inspired one. Ryback details, week by week, day by day, and sometimes hour by hour, how a country with a functional, if flawed, democratic machinery handed absolute power over to someone who could never claim a majority in an actual election and whom the entire conservative political class regarded as a chaotic clown with a violent followingPUBLICATIONS
- (2024). Takeover: Hitler's Final Rise to Power. New York: Knopf.
- (2014). Hitler's First Victims: The Quest for Justice. New York: Knopf.
- (2008). Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life. New York: Knopf.
- (1999). The Last Survivor: In Search of Martin Zaidenstadt. New York: Pantheon.
- (1990). Rock Around the Bloc: A History of Rock Music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. New York: Oxford University Press.
