Scott McClellan’s book What Happened spans a range of events that occurred during the Bush years and provides scathing profiles of several star-studded White House leaders.
Book Reviews
Fair Care
Authors J. Patrick Rooney and Dan Perrin take a different approach to healthcare.
American Dream Revisited
In his new book, Gross National Happiness, Brooks attempts to show that mainstream family values and morality cause Americans happiness.
Inflated Costs of War
The Three Trillion Dollar War attempts to calculate the accurate total cost of the war in Iraq, covering factors not included in the government’s official $800 billion figure.
Hightower’s New World
For a book touting independent, rebellious American activism, not giving the readers opposing information or the tools to evaluate the books’ argument—in effect demanding that readers swallow the information wholesale—seems highly “undemocratic.”
Bolshevik Begats
If you wonder why your professors cannot let go of their pet theories no matter how badly they work out when practiced in the real world, you will find part of the answer in A Conservative history of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn.
Presidential Personality Cult Deconstructed
So many generations have been taught that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended the Depression that it has become an article of faith for historians in and out of academia and, naturally, their media acolytes.
Academia’s Big Tent
You can get a pretty good idea of where academics are coming from politically and where they expect their junior colleagues to fall on the political spectrum by what they tell each other, particularly when they put it down on paper.
The South Rises Again
Academics’ attitudes towards the South color their teaching about the region, particularly lessons on the Civil War, and their histories, thus, often project myth rather than reality.
Wrong on race again
When you compare the racial attitudes of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Ronald Reagan, guess who comes out on top?
Book Review
Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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