Category Archives: Scholarly Reviews

My reviews of significant cultural works.

The War Lovers by Evan Thomas

I recently affirmed my literacy by reading The War Lovers: Roosevelt, Lodge, Hearst, and the Rush to Empire, 1898 by historian and Newsweek editor Evan Thomas. The book is a study of America’s headlong rush into the 1898 Spanish-American War, … Continue reading

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Grant and Sherman by Charles Bracelen Flood

This year’s summer reading included Charles Bracelen Flood’s excellent Grant & Sherman: The Friendship That Won the Civil War. The book is a crisp, concise examination of the the successes, failures, and character of Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh … Continue reading

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Dance With Me by Winifred Madison

As you are no doubt aware, the greatest book of all time is Dance With Me by Winifred Madison. It is the timeless story of shy, lonely girl named Jennifer trying to find love in the compromised world of high … Continue reading

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Those Guys Have All The Fun by Andrew James Miller & Tom Shales

Over the past four days, I cruised through all 700-some pages of Andrew James Miller and Tom Shales’ new oral history of ESPN, entitled Those Guys Have All The Fun. While the book was zippy and provacative, I confess that … Continue reading

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Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas

It took me five months, but I finally finished off the new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas. Bonhoeffer was, of course, the Lutheran pastor and theologian who helped found the Confessing Church movement which resisted the Nazi party, … Continue reading

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Hail, Hail, Euphoria! by Roy Blount, Jr.

I recently wasted a few hours reading Hail, Hail, Euphoria: Duck Soup, the Greatest War Movie Ever Made by the humorist Roy Blount, Jr. The best thing I can say for it is that it’s pretty short. The book is … Continue reading

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