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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
May 21, 2026Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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The Other Side of Israel: My Journey Across the Jewish/Arab Divide by Susan Nathan
May 21, 2026My worry was that this might be another leftist book that glibly made analogies between Israel...
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I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
May 20, 2026Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
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The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
May 20, 2026The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It – by Marcia Angell
May 20, 2026When AstraZeneca was on the verge of losing its patent to manufacture exclusively the $6 billion...
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The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
May 20, 2026Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
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The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions by Howard Frank Mosher
May 20, 2026Enter Howard Frank Mosher and his delightfully picaresque novel THE TRUE ACCOUNT – A Novel of...
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The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story – by David Treuer
May 19, 2026The novel’s postmodernism is not its strongest or even its most salient feature; and comparing the...
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The Trade – By Shirley Palmer
May 19, 2026Matt Lowell is a character straight out of central casting for the Lifetime Network. He’s a...
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The Conservative Bookshelf by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
May 19, 2026There is a small cadre of American writers whose gifts and talents are so significant that...
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The Taking – by Dean Koontz
May 19, 2026Dean Koontz has always been a master of plot, dialogue, and description. His talents are such...
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Stories From the Haunted South – by Alan Brown
May 19, 2026An old Cornish prayer that has become part of the American lexicon goes, “From goulies and...
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Stewball – by Peter Bowen
May 18, 2026I’ll begin by saying that I enjoyed immensely the first seven or eight novels in Peter...
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September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration by William C. Kashatus
May 18, 2026For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team...
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Temping – by Kirby Olson
May 18, 2026Milhouse Moot, the narrator of Kirby Olson’s autobiographical comic-allegorical novel, is severely depersonalized, rendering the story...
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic – by Chalmers Johnson
May 18, 2026Back in 2008 the United States had what was called a “California style” referendum. Empire or...
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Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall
May 18, 2026Who are the Stans? What are the Stans? Where are the Stans and what in the...
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
May 17, 2026Americans would be well advised to learn about Iran’s culture and tragic recent history before our...
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Red – by Ted Dekker
May 17, 2026In Red, The Heroic Defense, Dekker’s brilliant utilization of Christian doctrine and pagan myth provides a...
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Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 17, 2026With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
History
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
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William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
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Murdered by Mumia: A Conversation With Maureen Faulkner
June 16, 2026"The man lifted his arm and fired a single shot in Danny’s back. Danny was able...
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What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
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Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
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I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
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Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
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Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
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