Category: Book Reviews English

BOOK REPORT: TEAM OF RIVALS. THE POLITICAL GENIUS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN by Doris Kearns Goodwin (Penguin Books, 2006)

Oldie but goldie, if 2006 may be seen as “oldie,” Goodwin’s book won the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, the New-York Historical Society’s Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A 1510 pages book, Team of Rivals has an Introduction, two parts (Part 1:…

22 November 2025
They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and The Contest for American Liberty – Book Review

Book Reviewed: John G. Turner: They Knew They Were Pilgrims: Plymouth Colony and The Contest for American Liberty, Yale University Press, 2020. 464 pp, $15.74. Kindle version. A book published in 2020 by John G. Turner, Chair Professor of Religious Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, author of The Mormon Jesus: A Biography…

25 June 2024
History as Story, History as My (Family’s) Story: Life of a Klansman(2020) – Book Review

Full title: History as Story, History as My (Family’s) Story: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy (2020) – Book Review Book Reviewed: Edward Ball: Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 4, 2020, 416 pp, Kindle version, $13.64 Life of a Klansman: A…

24 September 2023