Blogs Posts in History category; 52 blog posts

BOOK REVIEW - Deadly harvest

With money at the root, opium at the core, smugglers at the back and the Taliban in the lead, an ancient form of commerce feeds a burgeoning terror industry. Gretchen Peters is convinced that hunting down the elusive top tier leadership [...]

Posted On : Jun, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

Three Kings – Book Review

This concisely written and well documented work covers the “Truman Doctrine…the essential rubric under which the United States projected its power globally after World War II. The ideological foundation for the “im [...]

Posted On : Mar, 12 2010 | Comments : 0

Book review - 'The Surrendered' by Chang-rae Lee

Chang-rae Lee's three previous novels were all commandeered by forceful narrators, each with a distinct voice and each struggling to find his moorings in a swiftly changing cultural landscape. First was bereaved young Henry Park [...]

Posted On : Mar, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Book Review - Queen Victoria Demon Hunter

Seth Grahame-Smith’s Pride and Prejudice and Zombies helped pave the way for this amusing alternate history of Queen Victoria’s reign. The Queen, Prince Albert and Prime Minister Lord Melbourne along with Protektor Maggie Bro [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2010 | Comments : 0

The American Civil War - a Military History by John Keegan: ...

In this his latest book, John Keegan has attempted the impossible. The subtitle gives his game away. Instead of adding to the pile of chronicles of the American Civil War, he has written a critique of them, from the point of view of a deep- [...]

Posted On : Oct, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

BOOK REVIEW - 'Pluralism is better than secularism'

Crossway Books, $17, 224 pages Reviewed by W. James Antle III Early in "The End of Secularism," Hunter Baker of Houston Baptist University talks about his religious awakening. He came to believe that if the God of the Bible ex [...]

Posted On : Oct, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

BOOK REVIEW - Dan Brown's latest is a cool journey.

Could 1514 A.D. be just an important date in the age of Leonardo, Machiavelli and Copernicus? Is Eight Franklin Square just the address of another nondescript building in northwest Washington, D.C.? Neither are what they seem in Dan Brown' [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2009 | Comments : 0

When China Rules The World

Author: Martin Jacques Publisher: Penguin Group FOR hundreds of years, the term ‘modernity’ has been synonomous with being western. This book argues things will be different with the rise of China as the Middle Kingdom reasserts [...]

Posted On : Aug, 29 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - An Americans Story by Gaston Delesdandroux

So reads the front cover of this enigmatic novel. Gaston Delesdandroux has written quite the blockbuster with An American’s Story. Set in the 1950’s and 1960’s it takes us back into the Cold War. It was raging in high gea [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2009 | Comments : 0

After America Book Review

After America: Narratives for the Next Global Age. Paul Starobin. Viking (Penguin), New York, 2009. After a half decade of books on the ‘American empire’ and many more on the politics, military, religion, and economics that are [...]

Posted On : Jul, 14 2009 | Comments : 0

Dan Brown Drumroll: The Book Cover Revealed

Ramping up the publicity campaign for Dan Brown’s long-time-coming follow-up to “The Da Vinci Code,” the publisher released the jacket art for “The Lost Symbol” on Tuesday.Showing a blood red wax seal, cryptic [...]

Posted On : Jul, 08 2009 | Comments : 0

America: A History in Art

America: A History in Art. The subtitle has been carefully worded, as this is not a traditional “art history” book. Placing equal focus on both history and art, this book tells the story of America and illuminates it with works [...]

Posted On : Jun, 26 2009 | Comments : 0

Book Review - The Prophet from Ephesus (The Roman Mysteries)...

Another instalment in the adventures of Caroline Lawrence's famed Roman mystery series. It is easy to see why these books have become so popular with children and young people - the mysteries are intriguing, with very believable characters [...]

Posted On : May, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

Book review Resurrecting "America's Defense Line"

The Israel lobby has come under more public scrutiny in the past three years than it has since US Senator William Fulbright's famous hearings into its activities in 1963. Questions over its role in fomenting the Iraq war have no doubt serv [...]