Review:The honest and frank style makes for a wild ride. What young boy wouldn't trade their pedestrian life to ride into manhood with this adventure? This is glimpse into the desperate times at the end of the plains struggle as the hide men and their guns forced horse culture of the plains to the reservation, broken, starving, but defiant. Read more

Review:Mr. Marshall's history of Crazy Horse and the upheavals in the Lakota culture make for a spell-binding book. It is very interesting to view history from a Lakota perspective, as opposed to the white-written history books many of us were force-fed in school. The people who lived on the plains in the 1800's were not the "savage and untamed" monsters depicted in many history books, just as the white forefathers (Washington, Jefferson, etc.) were not the "holy saints" they were portrayed as being. M... Read more

Review:Sweeping history of a relatively short period of time - the history they never taught us in school. The brutality of it all. The inevitability. The miscalculations. The tragedy for Native Americans. Read more

Review:My parents have had this book in their library for many years. When I saw a used copy in excellent condition for under $8.00, I was excited to add it to my library. This is a telling book of the outrageous atrocities waged against the Cherokee Natives who had embraced white men's ways and were still sold out. This book stands on its own merit. Read more

Review:The Hoffa story seems to come back around every year or two, so my buddy recommended this book to me. At first, it came off as Sheeran trying to get his name in the spotlight one last time in this life, but as you continue to read there seems to be an element of truth to his story. It becomes more obvious that he is telling this tale for reasons other than fame. Whether you believe it or not is up to you at the end, but I for one think the Hoffa mystery is pretty much solved. Read more

Review:Historical read about Irish hooligan gangsters in hells kitchen through the ages. It was alright, I ultimately stopped reading about halfway through because I had a more interesting book to read. It's not so much written as first person fiction as almost like a third person historical text. I'm actually not sure what the breakdown of history/fiction is in this book. Read more

Review:enjoyed reading the beginning of the story.
after a while it gets monotonous and very political. i llked the mafia part but not the politics surrounding this story.

should have been titled : The politics surrounding the birth, etc.... Read more

Review:The information contained in the book is very interesting and enlightening in terms of the history of early Jewish settlers in parts of the Caribbean (mostly Jamaica), but it does not discuss anything relating to swashbuckling pirates of what one expects from the movies. Read more

Review:I rarely read these book despite my love of sociology yet minutes into Traister's work and I was addicted. I barely made it through the third chapter before telling all my close friends (married or single) that they had to purchase it.

This book truly addresses the majority of the fears, joys, challenges and rewards of being single from multiple perspectives. Furthermore she manages not to tear down married women or pit them against single women in any way.

This should really be re... Read more

Review:Senator Lee has provided us with valuable mostly lost figures in US history. Their prominent positions were subjected to political biases that minimized their vast contributions. I found it interesting how short sighted even our founding Fathers were concerning the protections of our liberties were. Must read this book. Read more