Review:To the person from Kilgore, Texas:
Never have I heard such a mindless and uneducated tirade! Unfortuneatelty, what you do not seem to realize, is that despite your bigotry, everyone has the right to vote and decide how the U.S. is run.
By the way, blue color workers built the country! Also please note that you should not be so quick to decide what God has in mind for everyone. For someone who is so Christian, you sure do seem to have a lot of hatred and bigotry boiling up inside you. I don... Read more

Review:Boys for Men shows the daily grind and sameness of the life of a Vietnam soldier mixed with daily fear all the while getting closer to the Zone . Always ready for the inevitable horrors of war. Nice juxtaposition with the journal of a soldier from long ago. Read more

Review:Amity Shlaes' Forgotten Man is as important a book as Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz's Monetary History of the United States for describing the Great Depression and the various personalties and policies meant to save the economy that only exacerbated the decline. The author writes well with a sense of discovery and without an agenda. I learned a lot reading this book and it is what made me so eager to read her next book, Coolidge. Read more

Review:Brill presents the planning and launch of the Affordable Care Act "Obamacare" with a remarkable insider's view. You will be torn between contempt for the process and admiration for some of the players. I was entertained and informed. Read more

Review:Simon Winchester tells a story . . . a history of a happening . . . (perhaps) like no other. Who would think that the history of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary would be a 'page turner.' The research and thought that Winchester has put into this book is mind-boggling, but it is unique way of telling the story, weaving time, place and characters that makes this a remarkable story.
Wan'na read a good book? Have at it. Read more

Review:Imminent historian of the revolutionary war period, Joseph Ellis wrote this excellent character biography of Thomas Jefferson. This is not a straight, chronological biography. Instead, Ellis looks at some of the more interesting aspects of Jefferson's life, such as his sources for writing the Declaration of Independence, the contradictions between his writings on human freedom and his role as a slave owner, and his political activities versus his historical reputation. This is a very interest... Read more

Review:Joseph J. Ellis once again takes his quill pen to answer the continuing astonishment that our nation emerged against such overwhelming odds. He invites us to understand exactly how the Founding Brothers managed it. Read more

Review:Fareed Zakaria provides history and the insight needed to understand where we are and how we got here. Without that insight you cannot best understand where we are going. I believe he is spot on. It is time for us, Americans, to realize we are only a part of the whole. We are currently a big part of it but in the end it is the whole that matters. He is correct in that we failed by succeeding. The world learned what we wanted to teach them. We succeeded. Now they are our competition. If ... Read more

Review:If this is accurate - and I challenge anyone to challenge Harry Cooper and his team of researchers othrwsie - it changes approaches to school education, conventional history teaching, government policy... for goodness sake one and all, wake up! Please buy and read and even write to your MP. Read more

Review:The first portion of the book detailing the law enforcement investigation is pretty interesting, after awhile the book goes into quoting some online postings, which is rarely a good thing to include in a great book.
I agree with another poster, the "threat" on page 3 to not let anyone else take a look at the book, and send it back to the author, is the nuttiest page I have seen in a book in a long time. Ticked me off early and so I was biased against the book before I got started... Read more