Review:After much urging from friends, I've finally read Stannard's American Holocaust. It's a captivating book that gives a background into history that has been retold and written in the favor of the conquerors but has down played and in some cases, completely looked over, the devastating effects of their enterprise on the peoples of the New World, some of which still echo today. It's a sobering account based on much research of just what the title implies, a holocaust. I think very few books take in... Read more

Review:I just finished reading Hunger of Memory as an assignment for a Language and Literacy class I'm taking in my teacher training program. I recommend this book to all teachers or to people like myself who are planning to be teachers. Rodriguez does a outstanding job of capturing the feelings of confusion and separation one feels when learning English. I liked how Rodriguez corelates language with intimacy. He talks a lot about how Spanish was for him a language of intimacy and family. When he ... Read more

Review:Read just the prologue and your views on racism, but also on other messages of power and exclusion, will change forever.
But don't stop there. Reading year by year, idea by idea, voice by voice development of racism is more chilling than learning about the history of slavery and Jim Crow in high school history. The racism of both the supporters of slavery who spouted segregation but also of the abolitionists who spouted the more subtle racism of assimilation is examined in detail. You realize... Read more

Review:Part way through reading, it is more succinct in some ways than Willard Sterne Randall, Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor (1990)
There are some points of information in Philbrick that did not appear in Randall, but there is material in Randall that's not in Philbrick.
There is more detail in Randall in some aspects.

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Review:This book was required for a class, very good plus you have access to the publishers website where you can get quizzes. It was delivered quickly and excellent price compared to most college required books Read more

Review:Hayes writes about a difficult reality about open racial divisions most would like to deny, but he presents it with humility and makes it personal in a way that I understood. Should be required reading. Read more

Review:This book was required for a class, very good plus you have access to the publishers website where you can get quizzes. It was delivered quickly and excellent price compared to most college required books Read more

Review:Great informative and very enjoyable reading! I heard Mr. Unger when he was interviewed on NPR on October 1. His enthusiasm for his subject led me to download the book. Biographies have always been my favorite read, and this is surely no disappointment. I am very glad I was listening to NPR that day. Read more

Review:Great book! I love this author and have consistently read his fiction (with Lincoln Child) but his non-fiction is so well researched. I live in Arizona and I've never learned so much about this state and Southwest until I read this book. Highly recommended to everyone who loves history well written. Read more

Review:Fantastic chronicle of TR's descent into the madness of Brazil's Amazon jungle. This true story is a page turner. TR embarks on a bully adventure only to discover his hired safari guides have no experience nor have they properly provided for the expedition. As a result TR and his son, and their crew, face imminent death at every turn and barely get out with their lives. Riveting, true and brilliantly written. Read more