by Site Owner | May 3, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs
By Thomas C. Danisi Prometheus Books, $26.00, 350 pages This is a very interesting book except the author expects the reader already has a familiarity with the life and times of Meriwether Lewis and so there is no information about Lewis’s life prior to his joining...
by Site Owner | Apr 13, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By George C. Daughan Basic Books, $32.50, 491 pages In 1812 the British Empire was pouring its naval and army resources into defeating Napoleon. The British were attacking our commerce shipping and taking the sailors to work in their naval ships. President Madison...
by Site Owner | Mar 29, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By Max Hastings Knopf, $35.00, 730 pages Readers that enjoy non-fiction historical reading, specifically on World War II, will enjoy this book. Author Max Hastings does a terrific job of leading the reader through most areas of conflict, focusing on the events through...
by Site Owner | Dec 1, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
by James L. Nelson Thomas Dunne Books, $27.99, 365 pages If you like your history thoroughly researched, this book is for you. The book does a very good job leading the reader through years prior to the first large scale military action between the British and the...
by Site Owner | Sep 6, 2011 | Historical Fiction
By Jed Rubenfeld, Riverhead Books, $26.95, 480 pages The author purports that Sigmund Freud has said that man has two instincts; one is the pleasure principle and the other is the death instinct, an individual’s longing for death. For those of us that seek out...
