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Loving Frank: A Novel 188 reviews
Nancy Horan
Ballantine Books, 2008
Excellent book
Well written and well researched account of a woman's struggle between love, passion and responsibility.
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Great Speeches by African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Barack ... 8 reviews
James Daley
Dover Publications, 2006
Great Speeches
It was wonderful to read these great speeches by great people. The book is something to be cherised by all. It was easy reading and the price is right. I will probably purchase more of this book to give to friends and family. Barack Obama is the man of the year, so everyone wants to read his speech.
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The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression133 reviews
Amity Shlaes
Harper Perennial, 2008
The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten Man is the best book I've ever read on the subject of the '29 Crash and subsequent depression. If you really want to learn about what really happened in this country nearly 80 years ago and how many of the Roosevelt policies exascerbated and prolonged the situation, this is the book for you. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in that momentous period in American history, ...
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The Great Crash of 192947 reviews
John Kenneth Galbraith
Mariner Books, 1997
Relevant Again - and Readable as Always
Galbraith wrote The Great Crash in 1954 and he notes in his introduction that every time it was about to go out-of-print a new speculative mania would come along and a new printing would issue. One expects that the 2008 version must be in the works.
Galbraith writes for the general audience, which means he not only leaves out most of the arcane details, but he also writes in an engaging ...
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American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House2 reviews
Jon Meacham
Random House, 2008
My Husband was right again!
I started this book with trepidation as I am not a big nonfiction reader, I love thrillers and mysteries, but my husband said I had to read this new Andrew Jackson book that he had some how wrangled an advance copy. I have to grudgingly admit that he was right, this book was as much a page turner as the recent Patterson. Even more so because this stuff actually happened! Also my enjoyment of ...
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The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-200870 reviews
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Policy Evolution
This book is excellent. I think most people will enjoy this book no matter what your point of view is. The book is written really well, just as most of Woodward's books are. He makes you feel as you read it you are in the room with the principles watching events transpire.
The book serves two functions. The first thing the reader sees in the book is how policy evolves in Washington D.C. ...
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The Post-American World151 reviews
Fareed Zakaria
W. W. Norton, 2008
Undoing of the United States by the United States
The Post-American World by Fareed Zakaria is a timely and useful book but the author avoids looking at the causes behind the Rise of the Rest at America's expense. The United States wanted to have too many things in too short a time in the misplaced hope that with its robust and colossal economic, military, political, intellectual might, and vast'intelligence' network, it would always remain an ...
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Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time1430 reviews
Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics), 2007
Everyone should know his name
The fact that Arafat received a Nobel Peace prize and Mortenson hasn't is just disgusting.
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Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning354 reviews
Jonah Goldberg
Doubleday, 2008
A must read
Jonah Goldberg's book should be required reading in all college freshman political science classes. It took me years of independent reading to "un-learn" all the wrong-headed and misleading political analysis of fascism that is 'common-knowledge'. The fact that Fascism in general is the child of Progressivism is fairly well known, but the chapter on the abuses of the Wilson Administration was a ...
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Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association258 reviews
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association (APA), 2001
Great Service
Product delivered on time, in perfect condition, was the correct version and spiral bound. I would order from this company anytime.
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Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency 21 reviews
Barton Gellman
Penguin Press HC, The, 2008
the Last 8 years revealed
We have read all the exposés of the Bush Years. This is the best and the most terrifying.
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Barack Obama: Son of Promise, Child of Hope 13 reviews
Nikki Grimes
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2008
The Cult of Personality Goes to School...
I was genuinely disturbed when I read on the Barack Obama website that the campaign was encouraging children to draw images of the senator to present as gifts to their parents and teachers, and moreso when I saw the suggestion that they bold 'Barack sleepovers.' These are tactics unworthy of a candidate in a Democratic system. But when I walked into Borders and saw this book on the display rack, ...
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The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century1167 reviews
Thomas L. Friedman
Picador, 2007
The world is almost flat, but not completely flat.
Friedman does a good job explaining how the world became flat, or I would say almost flat. The examples are very relevant, although the book originally was written in 2004. His "Dell Theory" deserves applause.
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Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression16 reviews
Studs Terkel
W. W. Norton & Company, 2000
gives voices to those who lived through the Depression
As a former grad student in History, I found this book fascinating. Author Studs Terkel interviews people who lived through the Depression and gets their takes on that difficult period. We hear the experiences and memories of those who lived through it from multiple points of view. The book was published in 1970 and much of the research was accordingly done during the second half of the '60s ...
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10775 reviews
Marcus Luttrell
Back Bay Books, 2008
A rare, inspiring perspective. An excellent book.
Luttrell's book offers a ground-level perspective on the kinds of operations the US Military's Special Operations Forces are engaged in all around the world, all the time. Too often this topic (Special Forces, SEALs, Delta Force, etc) is dominated by superficial books that amount to little more than anecdotes from second- or third-hand war stories. Not the case with Lone Survivor.
I suppose ...
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The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals92 reviews
Jane Mayer
Doubleday, 2008
devastating portrait of power run amok; told elegantly--no polemic
There is a good reason why this book is a finalist for the National Book Award. Without in any way becoming polemic or apostasy, Ms. Mayer cogently and elegantly depicts how Cheney, Addington (Cheney's Cheney), Bush, John Yoo et al deliberately and successfully set about to sabotage and undermine our Constitution.
I got chills up and down my spine reading this masterful account.
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The Conscience of a Liberal82 reviews
Paul Krugman
W. W. Norton, 2007
Highly recommended for all Americans, liberal or otherwise
This is a must-read book for all Americans. Of course it's for liberals who are looking for a deeper understanding of their causes -- the last chapter is essentially a manifesto and call to arms -- but also, perhaps surprisingly, it would be a worthwhile read for moderate Republicans who have been left wondering what the heck happened to their party. I have some conservative-leaning friends who ...
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State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America39 reviews
Matt Weiland, Sean Wilsey
Ecco, 2008
A Fun Read
As someone who has traveled to nearly all 50 states in a converted bus (sorry Rhode Island, we didn't mean to, we just sorta missed ya), I enjoyed reading these writers takes on the places I've been to. A fun, well-written book to curl up with.
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A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present (P.S.)640 reviews
Howard Zinn
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005
History of the U.S. book
A must for high school, jr. high/middle school students who want a good, solid summary understanding of U.S. history!
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Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt2 reviews
H.W. Brands
Doubleday, 2008
Master Historian's FDR Biography Receives Strong Reviews
Franklin Roosevelt led the Allies to victory in World War Two after tackling the economic crisis of the Great Depression. This book by master historian H.W. Brands has received strong early reviews. (I will include my own review once I finish reading it.)
KIRKUS REVIEWS said that this book "will likely be the go-to popular biography for quite some time... a thoroughly readable, scrupulously ...
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