Book Reviews

Liberals accept cheating on taxes, cheating on their spouses and lying for their own self interests, Peter Schweizer, author of Makers and Takers, said at the Heritage Foundation.

“From the crack house to the coffeehouse”: a panel discusses the transformation of Harlem and Bronzeville.

Scott McClellan’s book What Happened spans a range of events that occurred during the Bush years and provides scathing profiles of several star-studded White House leaders.

Authors J. Patrick Rooney and Dan Perrin take a different approach to healthcare.

In his new book, Gross National Happiness, Brooks attempts to show that mainstream family values and morality cause Americans happiness.

The Three Trillion Dollar War attempts to calculate the accurate total cost of the war in Iraq, covering factors not included in the government’s official $800 billion figure.

For a book touting independent, rebellious American activism, not giving the readers opposing information or the tools to evaluate the books’ argument—in effect demanding that readers swallow the information wholesale—seems highly “undemocratic.”

If you wonder why your professors cannot let go of their pet theories no matter how badly they work out when practiced in the real world, you will find part of the answer in A Conservative history of the American Left by Daniel J. Flynn.

So many generations have been taught that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt ended the Depression that it has become an article of faith for historians in and out of academia and, naturally, their media acolytes.

You can get a pretty good idea of where academics are coming from politically and where they expect their junior colleagues to fall on the political spectrum by what they tell each other, particularly when they put it down on paper.

Academics’ attitudes towards the South color their teaching about the region, particularly lessons on the Civil War, and their histories, thus, often project myth rather than reality.

When you compare the racial attitudes of Woodrow Wilson, FDR and Ronald Reagan, guess who comes out on top?