Reviewed by Martin
Winston Churchill is supposed to have said that history is written by the victors. The implication being that posterity will know the past from the standpoint of the winners and that the losers will get short shrift. That might explain why so little is known about the fate of the Americans who were loyal to the Crown. Liberty's Exiles by Maya Jasanoff fills that void.
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Reviewed by Martin
This book reveals the story behind Boston Tea Party. It is as much a tale of political infighting as it is an account of patriotism and sacrifice. Sam Adams, John Hancock, and James Otis and others are revealed as flawed but courageous patriots whose activities began a revolution.
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Reviewed by James D. Best
Larry Schweikart's What Would The Founders Say is a book we've been waiting anxiously for. The title alone was enough to pique our interest. The best-selling author of A Patriot's History of the United States, doesn't disappoint with his latest effort.
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Reviewed by Marcia
It might seem contradictory to say that a book written to address the issues of 1940 is timely in 2011. Nonetheless, Mises’ topic, “Interventionism,†is even more relevant today than when America was mobilizing for war. Today’s threat to freedom is not a European dictator, but an ambitious, interventionist government whose grasp far exceeds Constitutional limits.
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Reviewed by Marcia
Despite personal and political tribulations, John and Abigail’s devotion to one another, to their children and their country, remained resilient and unshakable. The recent book, First Family, by Joseph Ellis, provides an intimate look at this perfectly matched pair.
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Reviewed by Martin
Although barely 100 pages, Robert Allison's new book, The American Revolution, A Concise History, is packed with interesting facts and observations about the birth of the United States. The author manages to pack quite a lot into this little book.
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Reviewed by Martin
While, at first blush, The Screwtape Letters might not seem the kind of thing that fits our WWTFT theme, it turns out that there are a few things which are relevant.
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Reviewed by Martin
James Monroe is not a subject easily captured within the confines of a book. Harlow Giles Unger, nevertheless, does a masterful job in this biography of hero, diplomat, statesman, president and man for all seasons, James Monroe.
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Reviewed by Marcia
In Forgotten Patriots, author Edwin G Burrows rights an awful wrong. The patriot prisoners who risked death rather than abandon their honor and their country, suffered horribly, but their sacrifices have gone largely unnoticed because it has not been politically expedient to reveal their treatment at the hands of the British.
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Reviewed by Martin
Harlow Giles Unger's biography of Patrick Henry is an interesting portrait of an American Icon, an orator known as the Lion of Liberty. Unger's book covers Henry's essential role in the Revolution as well as his influence on the shape of the government under the Constitution.
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