George Kennan for Our Time By Lee Congdon. Northern Illinois University Press, 2022. Paperback, 232 pages, $19.95. Reviewed by Francis P. Sempa. The United States in the early 21st century, Lee Congdon writes, suffers from a wayward internationalist foreign policy...
Co-Workers in the Kingdom of Culture: Classics and Cosmopolitanism in the Thought of W. E. B. Du Bois By David Withun. Oxford University Press, 2022. Hardcover, 256 pages, $80.00. Reviewed by Chris Butynskyi. Race, class, gender. These are three important components...
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...
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...
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...
Happy Constitution Day! This week the Bookman celebrated the 50th anniversary of the publication of Russell Kirk's The Roots of American Order with a symposium on the book. The essays include reflections on our written and unwritten constitution. (1/3) https://kirkcenter.org/reviews/kirks-constitution-from-the-roots-to-the-end-of-american-order/
Who are the women quietly defying the birth dearth? Join the Book Gallery on 9/23 with @ubookman editor @lsheahan and @CRPakaluk discussing her latest book, "Hannah's Children" to find out more. Registration is open here: