Book Review: Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History by David Aaronovitch
August 26, 2026Voodoo Histories isn’t an attempt to tell everyone to chill out and stop worrying about what...
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
August 12, 2026In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 11, 2026James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Churchill by Paul Johnson
August 10, 2026And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 5, 2026The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
With Hitler to the End: The Memoir of Hitler’s Valet by Heinz Linge
August 2, 2026Unfortunately the book, while delivering a few marginal insights into Hitler’s character, motivations and global strategies,...
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 2, 2026It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Democracy: 1,000 Years in Pursuit of British Liberty by Peter Kellner
August 1, 2026Magna Carta, that legendary document which is so frequently referred to in discussions of freedom, and...
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...




