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We're All Journalists Now: The Transformation of the Press and Reshaping of the Law in the Internet Age 6 reviews
Scott Gant
Free Press, 2007
Excellent, Well-Written, Quick Read On Ever Important Subject
+ We're All Journalists Now: Great subject, debatable message
+ The author is an attorney and constitutional scholar
+ Are millions of journalists better than thousands?
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Hard America, Soft America: Competition vs. Coddling and the Battle for the Nation's Future 25 reviews
Michael Barone
Three Rivers Press, 2005
solid and accurate
+ The boundary is not fixed
+ Solid but Short
As someone who is nearing the end of his Hard Years (18-30), Barone's book really hit home in terms of accuracy and thoroughness.
A former schoolteacher, I know all about "professional" Soft America, and the insight from Barone into the world of education (all the way through, of course, the ...
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The Road to Disunion: Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 (Road to Disunion Vol. 1)27 reviews
William W. Freehling
Oxford University Press, USA, 1991
An Excellent Examination of the Antebellum South
+ 4.5 Stars
+ Professor's Prose Style Makes "Road" a Difficult Journey
Dr. Freehling, in this first of two excellent works on the long course of action that led to disunion and the dissolution of slavery in the United States shows great analysis of controversies that demonstrated division within the south, within political parties, within southerners themselves and ...
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Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-18488 reviews
Joseph Wheelan
PublicAffairs, 2007
A book that was a pleasure to read
+ Nice Book, but Some Doubts.
+ Wheelen does a nice job
+ Very good, but where are the maps?
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Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America (The Public Square)27 reviews
Andrei S. Markovits
Princeton University Press, 2007
Superb Stab at Undead Anti-Americanism & Anti-Semitism!
+ Uncouth Nation: A Must-Read!!
+ A Story that Must be Told!
If you read one book on today's anti-Americanism (its present realities and pre-Bush history) I'd say make it this one. Surveying a burgeoning literature, I have found nothing better on the topic than this wonderful, brilliantly insightful new volume. Lucidly and engagingly written by someone who ...
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The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won52 reviews
Peter Navarro
FT Press, 2006
Surprisingly scholarly and a must for anyone concerned about America's greatest potential military threat.
+ The Coming China Wars
China has over one billion people and the largest military in the world. Now in a newly revised and significantly expanded edition, "The Coming China Wars" is a discussion of what many politically savvy Americans fear, something that may or may not be inevitable - war with China. Explaining the ...
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On the Hunt: How to Wake Up Washington and Win the War on Terror15 reviews
Colonel David Hunt
Three Rivers Press, 2008
Read this and know how the War on Terror Needs to be Fought
+ Colonel Hunt is unvarnished
+ Great book
+ What you should be hearing on the TV news but won't
+ Hunt for President!
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Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him63 reviews
Humberto Fontova
Sentinel HC, 2007
Che and Anderson Exposed!
+ Let's face the thruth
+ Great Book,Actually Truthful and Not Some Bias,Bubbling Book about A Murderer.
If Humberto Fontova's book were not so disturbing, I would call it a page-turner. And in as much as it grips you from the first sentence, it is still difficult to read of the first-hand accounts of such brutalities which, sadly, fill this book from beginning to end. Unlike Jon Lee Anderson's ...
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In Defense of the Bush Doctrine (Contemporary Issues in the Mid)8 reviews
Robert G. Kaufman
University Press of Kentucky, 2008
about time we had an informative, cogent explanation of the Bush policy
+ Solid explication of a particular point of view
+ In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
I am most of the way through this book and have been impressed by its clear, readily understood prose and its straight-to-the-point sentences explaining the various foreign policies that the U.S. has embraced and the proofs of their failure or success with the reasons why. Naming and explaining ...
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Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers35 reviews
Michael Barone
Crown, 2007
Did American founders fully agree with the English history?
+ Good narrative, but doesn't support its title
+ Still an interesting book
+ A bit fact-heavy, but fascinating in its thesis
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Poor People13 reviews
William T. Vollmann
Harper Perennial, 2008
Subnormality
+ Poverty: The Deep Cuts
+ Part John McPhee, part Hunter S. Thompson
+ Hard to read? Hardly.
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Foundations of Betrayal: How the Liberal Super Rich Undermine America 3 reviews
Phil Kent
Zoe Publications LLC, 2007
As a USA citizen. I am amazed this goes on.
+ It Opens Your Mind
+ LOOK THE OTHER WAY
I will buy this book, after seeing the author on CSpan2 Book TV. It documents efforts to subvert USA soverinty by Foundations who give to terrorist organizations, and work against the USA goals.
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The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace33 reviews
Ali A. Allawi
Yale University Press, 2008
Excellent history of the Iraq war
+ best book there is on Iraq
+ An Iraqi Account of the War
+ An Iraqi perspective
+ book:The Occupation Of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace
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The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor28 reviews
William Langewiesche
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
What If.
+ A realistic view of nuclear proliferation
+ Calm Down it's not as bad as Bush Says
What if ...Iran covertly buys Enriched Uranium from North Korea?...then claims it produced it ..this is the very reason Israel has made contingency plans for a strike on the Known Nuclear sites...its really hard to believe that the World is not taking the Iranian threat seriously,during WW2 we had ...
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-190214 reviews
David J. Silbey
Hill and Wang, 2008
Great Book
+ A good short history on a forgotten subject
+ very interesting
+ Valuable and enjoyable story for understanding American identity
+ War of the Frontier and Empire
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182 Days in Iraq54 reviews
Phil Kiver
Word Association.com, 2006
Riveting, from the gut
+ don't knock it until you've lived it
+ Feels like I'm there!
Having lost a son in this war, I am thirsty for any accounts of the "real" feedback of some one who has been there, and Phil has. I have met the author in person just recently and wanted to hear more of his story. I find it hard to put down, so much that the average American nevers hears of, ...
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Foreign and Domestic: Campaign II--Battle for the Middle States 14 reviews
Michael Mannske
Radius7 Pressworks, 2007
Foreign and Domestic Battle for the Middle States Campaign II
+ Once You Accept the Concept , This is Riveting
+ Fiction? - I wonder
+ A must-read for military/political thriller fans!
+ Political thriller fans alert!
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A Special Mission: Hitler's Secret Plot to Seize the Vatican and Kidnap Pope Pius the XII8 reviews
Dan Kurzman
Perseus Books Group, 2007
Well Done and Balanced View of Pius
+ A SPECIAL MISSION: HITLER's SECRET PLOT ON POPE
+ Excellent documentation with critical sympathy
Kurzman has done excellent work in this very well balanced history of Pope Pius and the Nazi threat in WWII. There are no excuses made or whitewash of what the Vatican did and did not do during the war but this book aids in having a better understanding of the situation, time, and place. It also ...
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Civilians in the Path of War (Studies in War, Society, and the Militar)
University of Nebraska Press, 2002
"War," wrote Gen. William T. Sherman, "is cruelty, and you cannot refine it." Throughout history, noncombatants have always been among the victims of war's violence. In this book, nine distinguished historians examine twenty-five hundred years of human conflicts and their varied impacts on civilian society. Each case study examines not only what military forces did to noncombatants in the area of ...
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Retained by the People: The "Silent" Ninth Amendment and the Constitutional Rights Americans Don't Know They ... 3 reviews
Dan Farber
Basic Books, 2007
A remarkable book; must-read!
This book is all I expected it to be and more. The first review that was posted was entirely off the mark (please see my comment responding to his post and you will see why).
The thing that struck me most about this book was how thoroughly the author has researched the topic at hand (the 9th ...
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