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9-25-17
Review of Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened”
by Kathryn Smith
She’s not going to shut up. And she shouldn’t.
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9-11-17
Review of “The Soviet-Israeli War 1967-1973: The USSR’s Military Intervention in the Egyptian-Israeli Conflict” by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez
by Ron Briley
With their latest volume focusing upon the period between the 1967 Six-Day War and 1973 Yom Kippur War, the authors again insist that the Soviets pursued a more aggressive military posture in the Middle East than has been acknowledged by historians of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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9-4-17
Review of Noam Maggor’s “Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age”
by Daniel Lazare
Inside Noam Maggor’s somewhat over-stated examination of nineteenth-century capitalism is a modest little study struggling to get out.
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8-24-17
Review of Eric Foner’s “Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History”
by Ron Briley
In reading this collection of essays from Foner one is struck by the continuing relevance of his writings.
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8-1-17
Review of "The Eighth Wonder of the World: The Life of Houston’s Iconic Astrodome" By Robert C. Trumpbour and Kenneth Womack
by Ron Briley
An interesting academic book about the social issues raised by the construction of a major baseball stadium.
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Review of Leigh Montville's "Sting Like a Bee: Muhammad Ali vs. the United States of America, 1966-1971"
by Luther Spoehr
The latest on "The Greatest."
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7-26-17
Review of Nancy MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America”
by Ron Briley
The story of MacLean’s discovery of the alliance between an obscure economist and the Koch Brothers.
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7-19-17
We Should Keep a Close Eye on Business, too
by Nate Holdren
A review of Elizabeth Anderson’s “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (and Why We Don’t Talk about It)” and Chad Pearson’s “Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement.”
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7-17-17
What Are We to Make of Charles Lindbergh?
by Robert Huddleston
A review of Dan Hampton’s “The Flight” and Lynn Olson’s “Those Angry Days.”
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7-2-17
Review of Nancy Weiss Malkiel's " 'Keep the Damned Women Out': The Struggle for Coeducation"
by Luther Spoehr
Coeducation: how an idea whose time had come finally arrived.
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6-27-17
Review of Hugh Kennedy’s “Caliphate: The History of an Idea”
by Daniel Lazare
Somebody slapped the wrong title on Hugh Kennedy’s political history of Islam from Muhammad to the Ottomans.
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6-22-17
What Kind of Feminism Is This?
by Jeremy C. Young
A review of Laura Kipnis’s "Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus."
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6-15-17
Review of Jeffrey Moran's "The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents"
by Bernard von Bothmer
Has America really changed that much since the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" Trial?
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6-12-17
Review of David McCullough’s “The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For”
by Kathryn Smith
David McCullough is an American treasure.
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6-9-17
Review of Alexandra Zapruder’s “Twenty-Six Seconds: A Personal History of the Zapruder Film”
by John McAdams
The story of the Zapruder family’s saga.
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6-6-17
Review of 1st Lt. L.C. Beck, Jr.’s, “Fighter Pilot”
by Robert Huddleston
Fighter Pilot was first published in 1946 by Wrtzel Publishing. It was reprinted in 2013 by Literary Licensing, LLC.
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Review of "Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools" by Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson
by Luther Spoehr
Controversy belongs in the classroom.
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Review of Chris Whipple's “The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency”
by Kathryn Smith
"The Gatekeepers" is a fascinating book focusing on the chief of staff role from Nixon to Obama, ending with a bit of speculation about the man serving Donald Trump.
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5-1-17
Review of Joel Whitney's "Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers"
by William Bole
For most readers, the indignation will probably flow mainly from the CIA's truly despicable activities, not from its curious obsession with the editorial machinations of the literary elite.
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4-27-17
Review of Jerald Podair’s “City of Dreams: Dodger Stadium and the Birth of Modern Los Angeles”
by Henry D. Fetter
Did the Dodgers move to LA change the city? This author thinks so. Our reviewer doubts that.
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