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The President Who Destroyed the Klan: Ulysses S. Grant, An Unappreciated and...
“The Man Who Saved The Union, Ulysses Grant In War And Peace,” by H.W. Brands (Doubleday, 2012). A Review (March 26, 2013): On the scene in South Carolina federal marshals assisted by army troops...
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Dwight Eisenhower: The Peace President Who Refused to Use the Atomic Bomb
“Eisenhower: The White House Years,” by Jim Newton (Doubleday, 2011). A Review (April 8, 2013): The jet plane that roars over your head costs three-quarters of a million dollars. That is more money...
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The Midwife for the Imperial Presidency—Theodore Roosevelt
“T.R. The Last Romantic,” by H. W. Brands (Basic Books, 1997). A Review (May 17, 2013): I declined to adopt the view that what was imperatively necessary for the nation could not be done by the...
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Don’t Put Your Hope in the U.S. Supreme Court – It is a Reactionary Choke...
“Packing The Court: The Rise of Judicial Power and the Coming Crisis of the Supreme Court,” by James MacGregor Burns (The Penguin Press, 2009). A Review (June 18, 2013): “I do not forget the position...
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Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here—The American Prison System
“One Day In The Life of 179212: Notes From An American Prison,” by Jens Soering (Lantern Books, 2012). A Review (July 18, 2013). “In the weight room of all places, the hope and despair of the...
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Can War Be Ended? Talking Points for the Present Generation
Book Review: War No More: The Case for Abolition, by David Swanson (2013). “In addition to being immersed in a false world view of war’s inevitability, people in the United States are up against...
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How the Seeds of Our Freedom of Speech Were Sown in the Hard Ground of the...
“Jacob Frohwerk [was] the editor of a German-language weekly … a small newspaper with a circulation of just a few thousand, but one of its subscribers was the Department of Justice, which was keeping...
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The Misfit Christian
The Misfit Christian – Empowering the Believers and Seekers Who Don’t Fit Into Contemporary Church, by Carolyn Henderson (2014) “Grace is what Christianity is all about. We mess up. Constantly....
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