Remembering Our Unruly Character
Character in the American Experience: An Unruly People By Bruce P. Frohnen and Ted V. McAllister. Lexington Books, 2022. Hardcover, 208 pages, $95. Reviewed by Ryan R. Holston. Truth-telling with regard to historical life is never a question of laying bare “the...
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
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
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...
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