- Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
Posted on 05 Jul 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
He is not much impressed with modernity, rejecting with certitude McDonald’s transfatty fries, the inter-state highway system, television, the decline of literature, and a pernicious militarism that has sponsored the “great American diaspora.”
- Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South by Ralph Wood
Posted on 10 Jun 2007 in Biography, Non-Fiction Reviews, Religion
Flannery O’Connor was Catholic and Southern, and that combined with her genius produced a writer whose works have become something of a cottage industry.
- The Fire Baby by Jim Kelly
Posted on 10 Jun 2007 in Fiction Reviews
However, many contemporary English writers retain the essential nature of their culture. While they have, in many instances, been seduced by nihilism, there still remains the flickering light of the old faith.
- Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One, Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz and Kevin J. Anderson
Posted on 27 May 2007 in Fiction Reviews, Horror
He has taken it upon himself to examine society’s present milieu under the lens of traditional western mores and in so doing has presented the public with works that are perfectly entertaining and, more importantly, prescient.
- The Future Without A Past: The Humanities In A Technological Society by John Paul Russo
Posted on 27 May 2007 in Education, History, Non-Fiction Reviews
Weaver was referring, of course, to the media in all its forms and the pernicious effects that communication technology was having on our culture in 1948 when his book was published!
- The Works of Russel Kirk
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Fiction Reviews, Horror
Throughout his career Dr. Kirk, the only American to earn a degree of doctor of letters from St. Andrews University in Scotland, published over thirty books and countless articles, essays, and reviews.
- Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in History, Military, Non-Fiction Reviews
Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the protagonist in mind but with a definitive and objective understanding of his culture, placed in its proper historical context.
- The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in History, Military, Non-Fiction Reviews
Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of irregular warfare during the “late unpleasantness.”
- The Taking – by Dean Koontz
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Fiction Reviews, Horror
Dean Koontz has always been a master of plot, dialogue, and description. His talents are such that he not only details, for his constant readers, the events as they unfold, he can, through his magic or, more precisely, through his gift, transport you there!
- The Conservative Bookshelf by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, Politics
There is a small cadre of American writers whose gifts and talents are so significant that readers, at least the cognitive ones, are required to procure their latest efforts the moment they come off the press.
- Stories From the Haunted South – by Alan Brown
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Horror, Non-Fiction Reviews
An old Cornish prayer that has become part of the American lexicon goes, “From goulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!”
- Red – by Ted Dekker
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Fiction Reviews, Religion
In Red, The Heroic Defense, Dekker’s brilliant utilization of Christian doctrine and pagan myth provides a resilient foundation upon which he injects a hyper-imaginative storyline with simple, yet crisp dialogue, twisting plots, and layered realities.
- Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Biography, History, Non-Fiction Reviews
McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in history; he does not write for his colleagues.
- Profilers, Leading Investigators Take You Inside the Criminal Mind
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in Non-Fiction Reviews, True Crime
The science of criminal profiling has exploded on the public consciousness following the publication of Thomas Harris’s trilogy: Manhunter, Silence of the Lambs, and Hannibal.
- The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History – by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., PhD.
Posted on 24 Apr 2007 in History, Non-Fiction Reviews
The good news is that the assault on fortress academe has had initial success; the walls have been pierced, and a lodgment made.
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