by Martin
According to this biography, Balbo was Fascist more because it suited his own personality and desire to evince heroic characteristics and ultra patriotism, more than any deep seated attachment to the finer points of a political belief. In later years, after the bloodless "march on Rome" that saw the Fascists come to power in Italy, Balbo became very disillusioned with the direction that Mussolini was taking the country and with the cult of personality cultivated by Il Duce's dictatorship.
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by Marcia
West of the Revolution provides readers with an enlarged perspective of that seminal year in American history and the illustrations help to locate the reader in the political geography of the time. I suspect most readers, like this reviewer, did not know what they didn’t know before reading West of the Revolution.
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by Martin
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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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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by Marcia
Herman Melville’s novels are familiar to most high school students (or they used to be) but his poetry is another matter. I am guessing that, outside the literary world, most people are not aware he wrote poetry. This blogger made …
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by Martin
by Marcia
Martin recently informed this reviewer that Diana West has written a book-length Rebuttal to negative reviews of American Betrayal. That being unusual, it was necessary to read the reviews to discover what all the fuss was about.
Fuss is not the proper word. That’s like saying ingesting hemlock causes a tummy ache. For sheer vitriol, invective and downright nastiness these reviews would be a challenge to match.
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by Curtice Mang
Apparently, Australia is the home to a lot of genders. And we mean a lot! A Sydney University campus newspaper recently included a survey for students to select their gender identity. There were a total of 57 different options. That’s more than the number of states in the United States, unless one uses Obama math, in which case it’s a tie. I’m old enough to remember when there were only two gender options. Interestingly, those two options were conspicuously absent from the survey.
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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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