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Category Archives: history
Revolutionary Characters
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different© 2006 Gordon S. Woods352 pages Revolutionary Characters reviews the lives of several of the United States’ founding fathers to examine how the personal strengths and ambitions of these men allowed them to play … Continue reading
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Civil War© 2008 H.W. Crocker III 370 pages This is not a book I’d expected to read, because as a Southerner who’s been reading different views about the war for twenty years, I … Continue reading
Spinning Atoms in the Desert
Bombast: Spinning Atoms in the Desert© 2010 Michon Mackedon236 pages Which is more breathtaking, the power of the atom bomb or the hubris of governments that use it? Michon Mackedon’s Bombast will leave readers wondering. It reviews the approach of … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1940s, 1950s, American Southwest, history, military, Nuclear
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America Walks into a Bar
America Walks into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops© 2014 Christine Sismondo336 pages Welcome, friend. Pull up a stool. You’ve come in at the tail end of a story, but it’s one … Continue reading
Life and Death in the Third Reich
Life and Death in the Third Reich© 2009 Peter Fritzsche384 pages A few years ago I read Peter Fritzsche’s An Iron Wind: Europe Under Hitler, which examined how the Nazi conquest of most of Europe permeated into its culture in … Continue reading
Overlord | Victory in the Pacific
Many years ago when the world was new, the Twin Towers stood over Manhattan, and Europe was just starting to adopt the euro, I discovered a trilogy of books in my high school library about World War 2. They formed … Continue reading
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History© 2004 Thomas E. Woods290 pages I don’t remember when I first began to break from believing the Standard View of American history, the view promoted in the textbooks paid for by the State … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged American Civil War, Colonial America, Early American Republic, history, Politics-CivicInterest, Tom Woods
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Marine Combat Correspondent
Marine Combat Correspondent: World War 2 in the Pacific© 1999 Sam Stavisky344 pages Sam Stavisky was a reporter for the Washington Post on December 7th, 1941, when he and the world bore witness to Japan’s bloody ambition to rule the … Continue reading
Of Babylonians, demons, and bankers
Continuing in the Big Book Catchup… Paul Kriwaczek’s Babylon: Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization covers Mesopotamian history from the establishment of Eridu to the rise of the first Persian empire. This is a survey of thousands of years of … Continue reading
Posted in history, Politics and Civic Interest, Reviews
Tagged ancient world, doomsday, essays, fantasy, goods/services, Gore Vidal, health/wellness, history, Middle East
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Fighting for Space
Fighting for Space: Two Pilots and their Historic Battle for Female Spaceflight© 2020 Amy Shira Teitel448 pages When the age of flight arrived, women were as eager to take to the skies as men. Fighting for Space is a … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, aviation, human space flight, women
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