History Book Reviews

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• David W. Blight, A Slave No More : Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
  
  
• Jean Pfaelzer, Driven Out : The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans
  
  
• David A. Clary, Adopted Son : Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
  
  
• Michael McHugh The Second Gilded Age : The Great Reaction in the United States, 1973-2001
  
  
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Dancing in the Streets : A History of Collective Joy
  
  
• Linford Stutzman, SailingActs : Following an Ancient Voyage
  
  
• Amy Goodman and David Goodman, Static : Government Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back
  
  
• Al Franken, Rachel Maddow, Randi Rhodes, et al., Air America - The Playbook : What a Bunch of Left-Wing Media Types Have to Say about a World Gone Right
  
  
• Lawrence E. Harrison, The Central Liberal Truth : How Politics Can Change a Culture and Save It from Itself
  
  
• Thomas Dietrich, The Origin of Culture and Civilization : The Cosmological Philosophy of the Ancient World View Regarding Myth, Astrology, Science, and Religion

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Book Reviews

• Alex Boese, Hippo Eats Dwarf - A Field Guide to Hoaxes and Other B.S.
• Michael Useem, The Go Point - When It's Time to Decide -- Knowing What to Do and When to Do It
• Kevin Phillips, American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century

Political Biographies

• Bill Clinton, My Life
• John Rentoul, Tony Blair : Prime Minister

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Science History & Biographies

• Gabrielle Walker, An Ocean of Air : Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere NEW
• Jack Kelly, Gunpowder -- Alchemy, Bombards, and Pyrotechnics : The History of the Explosive That Changed the World
• Michael Novacek, Time Traveler : In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals from Montana to Mongolia
• Glenn Seaborg, Adventures in the Atomic Age
• Dava Sobel, Galileo's Daughter
• Charles B. Strozier, Heinz Kohut : The Making of a Psychoanalyst
• Colin Tudge, The Impact of the Gene : From Mendel's Peas to Designer Babies

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Book Reviews -- Military History

• James M. McPherson, The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom : The Civil War Era
• Carlo D'Este, Eisenhower : A Soldier's Life
• Henry Chancellor, Colditz - The Definitive History : The Untold Story of World War II's Great Escapes

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Book Reviews -- Spies & Espionage

• David A. Vise, The Bureau and the Mole : The Unmasking of Robert Philip Hanssen, the Most Dangerous Double Agent in FBI History
• Miranda Carter, Anthony Blunt : His Lives

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Book Reviews -- Art History

• Philip Ball, Bright Earth : Art and the Invention of Color
• Stephen King, On Writing : A Memoir of the Craft

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Sports Biographies

• Mark Frost, The Greatest Game Ever Played : Harry Vardon , Francis Ouimet , and the Birth of Modern Golf

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Pre-Modern & Ancient History

• Heather Pringle , The Mummy Congress
• Giles Milton, The Riddle and the Knight : In Search of Sir John Mandeville -- the World's Greatest Traveler

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Book Reviews -- Social Issues

• William Langewiesche, The Outlaw Sea : A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime
• Diane Coyle, Sex, Drugs & Economics
• Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong : Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response -- The Clash Between Islam and Modernity in the Middle East
• Francis Fukuyama, Our Posthuman Future : Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
• Atul Gawande, Complications : A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
• Sidney Hook, Towards the Understanding of Karl Marx : A Revolutionary Interpretation
• Juan Enriquez , As The Future Catches You
• Bob Reiss, The Coming Storm [global warming]
• John McWhorter, Losing The Race : Self-Sabotage in Black America
• Daniel P. Schacter, The Seven Sins of Memory
• 18 recommended books about international law & war crimes tribunals (not reviewed)

The following book reviews may be called EDITORIAL OPINIONS because the reviewer disputes the authors' assertions about "left-wing" dominance in the modern U.S.

• Bernard Goldberg, Arrogance : Rescuing America From the Media Elite
• Bernard Goldberg, Bias : A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
• Ann Coulter, Treason : Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism

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• Rodney King - The police brutality trials and the Los Angeles riots
• Rubin "Hurricane" Carter -- Middleweight boxer framed on murder charge
• September 11, 2001 Coverage
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Book Reviews -- United States History & Biographies

• David McCullough, John Adams
• Roger Bruns, Almost History : Close Calls, Plan Bs, and Twists of Fate in America's Past
• Robert W. Galvin, America's Founding Secret : What the Scottish Enlightenment Taught Our Founding Fathers
• Ari Hoogenboom, Rutherford B. Hayes : Warrior and President
• Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm : Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
• Phillip Hoose, We Were There, Too! - Young People in U.S. History
• Jack Todd, Desertion in the Time of Vietnam
• Lerone Bennett, Jr., Forced into Glory : Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
• David McCullough, Truman
• Elizabeth A. Fenn, Pox Americana : The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
• Arthur Herman, Joseph McCarthy : Reexamining the Life and Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator
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• Rosa Parks, My Story (Autobiography)
• Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States : 1492 to the Present
• Jane Franklin, The U.S. Invasion of Panama : The Truth Behind Operation Just Cause

Native American Society

• Hugh Brody, The Other Side of Eden
• Eliza McFeely, Zuni and the American Imagination
• Frederick Turner, The Portable North American Indian Reader

Historical Fiction Based on Fact

• R. S. Sukle, Bucket of Blood -- The Ragman's War
  A fictionalized account of the 1927-1928 mine workers' strike in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
• Howard Fast, The Crossing -
  George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River