Reviewed by Marcia
We Have the War Upon Us is an engrossing book, full of fascinating historical details. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the American Civil War and an excellent introduction to the people and events that led up to the bloodiest, most devastating war in American history.
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Reviewed by Marcia
This is the story of the way an empire – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – ended. While much of the rest of he world was celebrating Christmas, the Soviet Union quietly slipped beneath the waters of history. After a cynical effort to replace the Union with a federation, the territories over which the USSR claimed dominion floated away, leaving only Russia bobbing in their wake.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Berlin 1961 tells the back-story of the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin Wall and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The author did a masterful job of weaving together recently declassified documents in the U.S., Germany and Russia and first person narratives for a previously untold account of these seminal events. Readers who remember these occurrences will be appalled at how the American public was deluded by government secrecy and a media smitten with a handsome, eloquent, but dangerously incompetent president.
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Reviewed by Martin
Roads To The Temple is an exploration of what statism or etatism does to a people, a culture, and a country. Author Leon Aron meticulously examines the historical record leading up to the Russian Revolution of 1987 - 1991 as it relates to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. It is only in the context of the previous seven decades that there can be any possibility of understanding this second Russian Revolution and what its chroniclers were referring to in the things they wrote.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Candace Millard artfully weaves President James A. Garfield’s story with the lives of the people he intersected. The result is a tale of nobility, ego, villainy, loyalty, weakness and redemption.
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Reviewed by James D. Best
Freedom’s Forge by Arthur Herman is a celebration of people who know how to build things. The book is filled with characters that seemingly came from Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged … except these Americans were not fictional. They were real industrialists and miracle makers.
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Reviewed by Marcia
In the process of assigning grades Hayward manages to be both scholarly and entertaining. His combination of neglected and forgotten historical information with trenchant observations injects color into what otherwise might be dull reading. This book should be read because it is more than a “Politically Incorrect Guide to the Presidents.†It is a cautionary account of how Wilson’s dream of the unrestrained state guided only “by the exigencies and the new aspects of life itself†became today’s nightmare of profligate spending, crony capitalism, destruction of the rule of law, and, inevitably, failing a course change, bankruptcy and tyranny.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Radical-in-Chief is an excellent book, but it is not an easy one to read. The author’s extensive research and meticulous attention to detail demands that readers, like the author, be determined truth-seekers.
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Reviewed by Marcia
This first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick almost wasn’t written. Those interested in understanding US political history over the last 50 years can be grateful that it was. Jeane Kirkpatrick’s evolution from liberal (before the word became a pejorative) Democrat to Reagan Republican is also the story of how the radical left hijacked the Democratic Party, the winning of the Cold War, and an account of a group of individuals whose collective brainpower could move a planet out of orbit.
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Reviewed by Martin
James Madison and The Making of America is not really a biography. It is exactly what its title suggests, the story of the making of America, or at least its government. Kevin R. C. Gutzman’s book takes the reader on a chronological journey of Madison’s involvement in that process. It mirrors some aspects of Labunski’s James Madison and The Struggle For The Bill of Rights, but is broader in scope and less biographical than that excellent book.
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