Friends, Countrymen, Romans

Friends, Countrymen, Romans

Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging By Dean Hammer. Cambridge University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 262 pages, $110.00. Reviewed by Jesse Russell. Since its inception, America has been many things, but, in a certain sense, it has always...
Counting the Costs of the Second Great War

Counting the Costs of the Second Great War

April 1945: The Hinge of History Craig Shirley. Thomas Nelson Books, 2022. Hardcover, 528 pages, $31.99. Eight Days in May: The Final Collapse Of The Third Reich By Volker Ullrich. Liveright, 2021. Hardcover, 336 pages, $28.95. Reviewed by Robert Huddleston. When the...
U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer

U.S. Trade Policy According to Robert Lighthizer

No Trade Is Free: Changing Course, Taking on China, and Helping America’s Workers By Robert Lighthizer. Broadside Books, 2023. Hardcover, 384 pages, $32.00. Review by Frank Filocomo. Ever since the presidential campaign of Donald J. Trump in 2016, the issue of...
Inside the Split Mind of George Kennan

Inside the Split Mind of George Kennan

Kennan: A Life Between Worlds By Frank Costigliola. Princeton University Press, 2023.  Hardcover, 648 pages, $39.95. Reviewed by John C. Chalberg. Biographies of George Frost Kennan can have tales of their own. Or so concludes Kennan’s most recent biographer,...
Reagan as Peacemaking Cold Warrior

Reagan as Peacemaking Cold Warrior

The Peacemaker: Ronald Reagan, the Cold War, and the World on the Brink By William Inboden. Dutton, 2022. Hardcover, 608 pages, $35. Reviewed by Jason C. Phillips. Mikhail Gorbachev’s recent death has led to a renewed interest in the Cold War, making the recent...