Editors’ Summer Reading
Spring is drawing to a close. Summer is upon us. That means it’s time for summer reading. Luke C. Sheahan, Editor Once final grades are submitted, and I’ve rested, I begin my trek through a summer booklist. At the top is always Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. I read it...
Reagan vs. the Air Traffic Controllers
Ronald Reagan and the Firing of the Air Traffic Controllers By Andrew E. Busch. University Press of Kansas, 2024. Paperback, 180 pages, $24.99. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Rare has been the day since President Trump was sworn in for his second term that Elon...
Reappraising Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox. Simon and Schuster, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $34.99. Reviewed by John C. “Chuck” Chalberg. “The light withdrawn . . .” The line is borrowed from John Greenleaf Whittier’s poem “Ichabod.” Woodrow Wilson as...
Lessons from Sparta
Sparta’s Third Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta, 413-404 B.C. By Paul A. Rahe. Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 640 pages, $41.99. Reviewed by Jeffrey Folks. In Sparta’s Third Attic War, Paul H. Rahe continues his multi-volume history of...
Ah, just your typical 663-page light summer beach read for a @ubookman book review. Makes Wealth of Nations look like a Substack essay.