History of the American Revolution Well Told

History of the American Revolution Well Told

The Diplomacy of the American Revolution By Samuel Flagg Bemis. Introduction by Ben Judge.  Encounter Books, 2024. Hardcover, 272 pages, $30.99. Reviewed by Kevin R. C. Gutzman. Samuel Flagg Bemis was a master of American diplomatic history, a field that has now...
Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps

Pride in Our Founders – Through Geography and Maps

Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America’s Revolutionary Leaders By Michael Barone.  Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 228 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Christian Sellar. This book is the fruit of the labor of a journalist and political...
The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The U.S. Constitution and Slavery 

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution: Slavery and the Spirit of the American Founding  By Simon Gilhooley. Cambridge University Press, 2020. Paperback, 283 pages, $29.99. Slavery and Sacred Texts: The Bible, the Constitution, and Historical Consciousness...
Draining the Swamp

Draining the Swamp

You Report to Me: Accountability for the Failing Administrative State  By David Bernhardt.  Encounter Books, 2023.  Hardcover, 272 pages, $29.99. Reviewed by Chuck Chalberg. In recent years the term “administrative state” has become part of our common parlance. The...
The Romance of Journalism in the American Century 

The Romance of Journalism in the American Century 

The Noise Of Typewriters: Remembering Journalism By Lance Morrow. Encounter Books, 2023. Hardcover, 200 pages, $27.99. Reviewed by Alexander J. Fezza.  It is easier to describe The Noise of Typewriters by Lance Morrow by what it is not rather than what it is.  This...