Reviewed by Martin
Andrew Klavan writes in an engaging and interesting style that keeps the reader wanting to finish the story. Hunting Down Amanda is another Klavan book that makes for pretty good airplane reading. It is just about the perfect length for the 5 hour flight from JFK to PHX.
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Reviewed by Martin
True Crime is a fiction noir, in which the main character is a smart, but none too savory newspaper reporter with a proclivity for cheating on his wife and skeptical mind. True Crime is written in a very believable and straight at you kind of style. The preface at the beginning leaves the reader thinking that the story might actually be true and really sets the stage for suspending disbelief.
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Reviewed by Martin
The Tehran Initiative is Christian fiction just shy of the mode in the popular (but terribly written) Left Behind series. Rosenberg makes no apologies for his religious perspective, but largely avoids hitting his reader over the head with it. Nonetheless, some readers will no doubt be turned off by the religious implications and views espoused in the book. For all that, it is incredibly timely, and really does seem to have been ripped directly from today's headlines.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an early adherent of Rahm Emanuel’s philosophy regarding crisis and opportunity. With unemployment at almost 20%, Roosevelt used fear and economic uncertainty to breach the Constitution with an alphabet soup of overlapping interventions in the economy.*
FDR Goes to War is a surprisingly short, but detailed account of a president, whose failed policies are still echoing through the present day.
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Reviewed by Martin
Glenn Beck's recent book on Washington is not a biography, a political rant, or even a history. Instead it is book designed to show the difference one man of character can make. It is a challenge to all Americans to be people of character.
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Reviewed by Martin
With Musket and Tomahawk covers the Wilderness War of 1777 and is a great book to read in conjunction with several others reviewed here at WWTFT, particularly the Ethan Allen biography. Logusz provides a lot of interesting detail about the people and events leading up to Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga in October of 1777.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Reading Steyn’s latest book is painful but he leavens the pain with his irreverent humor. Prepare to groan while you giggle at his talent for skewering the ludicrous. The book is extensively footnoted, always on point, and all too frequently validated by events.
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Reviewed by Marcia
For a short course on what President George Bush called “the war on terror†you won’t find a better book. Twenty essays, by well-known experts at various points on the political spectrum, discuss enhanced interrogation, the Patriot Act, security policies, personal liberty, and other legal and policy issues under the Bush and Obama administrations.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Madison was involved in every major event of early American history, before, during and after the Founding. Richard Brookhiser's serious, if too brief, biography of James Madison, is delightfully written, and replete with insights about the man and his time.
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Reviewed by James D. Best
In order to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, we need to understand it. Luckily, there are some great learning tools available to every American. These include an online course at James Madison’s Montpelier Center for the Constitution, the webcast series Introduction to the Constitution from Hillsdale College, and several good books, including The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Tempest at Dawn, and Decision in Philadelphia.
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