Category: Book Reviews English
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Book Review: What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party (Michael Kazin – Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 2022) – Kindle version, 416 pages
A great book on politics, What It Took to Win. A History of the Democratic Party was published by Michael Kazin, a party sympathizer all his life, professor of history at Georgetown University, editor emeritus at Dissent, co-editor of the Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History and author of several books: War Against War: The…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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