Reviewed by Martin
Afloat and Ashore has much to offer a modern reader at least one with interests like this reviewer. First and foremost, Afloat And Ashore is a good story with good character development. The story takes place of the formative years of its hero’s ascendancy to both adulthood and manhood. As the reader quickly ascertains, the the attainment of years is not necessarily the same as maturity. There is more to being a man than reaching a certain age. The innocent immaturity of childhood is nothing to be ashamed of, but a man learns to accept responsibility and behave accordingly.
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Reviewed by Martin
George Washington's Secret Six is extremely well-written and concise. Frankly, it was a surprise to this reviewer. Any time a celebrity (in this case Brian Kilmeade of Fox and Friends) attaches his name to a book, one has to be skeptical. In this case, the skepticism was not well-founded.
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Reviewed by Marcia
In this exhaustively researched book, Diana West reveals how critical information has been withheld from the American public, how Americans have been misled and systematically lied to by the U.S. government and how, with the aid of a complicit press corps, public opinion has been deliberately manipulated to replace facts with false narratives.
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Reviewed by Martin
In the second chapter of The Ethics of Rhetoric, Richard Weaver uses the “Scopes Monkey Trial†(although he refers to it as The Scopes Evolution Trial), to demonstrate the uses of rhetorical and dialectical argument.
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Reviewed by Martin
Author Scott Martelle’s account of the efforts to find the body of John Paul Jones and the man chiefly responsible doing so, is fascinating and thorough. He manages to incorporate many interesting anecdotes and historical details along the way, all of which add color and texture to the tale, and it’s a tale worth reading.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Inventing Freedom elaborates on the themes in Daniel Hannan’s “The New Road to Serfdom.†The earlier book, subtitled “A Letter of Warning to America,†is exactly that. In it Hannan sounded the alarm against forsaking our political inheritance and following Europe into “uniformity, socialism and insolvency: “The New Road to Serfdom. Inventing Freedom identifies the pilots who would take us there, but not until the closing chapters.
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Reviewed by Martin
Whether you are serious scholar, a devotee of naval history, or just like a good book, Sloop of War does not disappoint. The amount of research done by author Ian McLaughlan and Derek Andrews, to whom the book is dedicated, is simply astounding.
Inspired by a feeling that the literature was lacking on this unappreciated class of sailing ship, McLaughlan made it his mission to give the sloop its due.
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Reviewed by Martin
If the fourth chapter of Ideas Have Consequences was difficult to come to terms with and harder to explain, the fifth chapter is one of painful clarity. Once again Weaver’s prescience is astounding, especially when one considers that the Internet did not yet exist when Weaver wrote this book in 1948.
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Reviewed by Martin
The following is a synopsis of the fourth chapter of Richard Weaver’s Ideas Have Consequences intermingled with some thoughts from this reader. This is the fifth in a series of posts about this important book.
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Reviewed by Martin and Marcia
The third chapter of Weavers seminal work, Ideas Have Consequences deals with yet another aspect of modern mans systematic abandonment of the classical search for the Good, the True, and the Beautiful.
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