A Republic, If We Can Teach It: Fixing America’s Civic Education Crisis By Jeffrey Sikkenga and David Davenport. Republic Book Publishers, 2024. Hardcover, 250 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Last year’s dismal eighth grade scores on the history and civics exams...
Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America Edited by Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley. Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback, 326 pages, $42.99. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Carol McNamara and Trevor Shelley have edited a wonderful collection of essays about topics related...
The Innovation Delusion: How Our Obsession with the New Has Disrupted the Work that Matters Most By Lee Vinsel and Andrew L. Russell. Currency, 2020. Hardcover, 272 pages, $28. Reviewed by Hans Zeiger. Sam Smith, the former president of Washington State University...
Summer is here and the days are long. Slowing schedules allow time for many of us to sink into the queue of books that have been patiently waiting for us over the busyness of our end of spring schedules.