History

        Politics

American Indian

Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West - Dee Brown - Review by Monty Rainey

New     Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency - Michael Blake - Review by Monty Rainey

Oh What a Slaughter - Larry McMurtry - Review by Monty Rainey

Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change - John Canfield Ewers - Review by  Monty Rainey

Christian History

A Concise History of the Crusades - Thomas F. Madden - Review by Monty Rainey

Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why - Bart Ehrman - Review by Monty Rainey

The First Crusade: A New History - Thomas Asbridge - Review by Monty Rainey

Citizenship

A Well Regulated Militia: The Founding Fathers and the Origin of Gun Control in America - Saul Cornell - Review by Monty Rainey

The Bill of Rights: The First Ten Amendments of the Constitution - David Hudson - Review by Monty Rainey

The Book of Virtues - William Bennett - Review by Monty Rainey

The Children's Book of America - William Bennett - Review by Wayne A. Smith

The Children's Book of Heroes - William Bennett - Review by Wayne A. Smith

The Good Citizen Handbook - Jennifer McKnight Trontz - Review by Monty Rainey

The Moral Compass - William Bennett - Review by Monty Rainey

The Morality of Everyday Life: Rediscovering an Ancient Alternative to the Liberal Tradition - Thomas Fleming - Review by Monty Rainey

Our Sacred Honor - William Bennett - Review by Monty Rainey

Constitution and Law

A Matter of Interpretation - Judge Antonin Scalia - Review by Monty Rainey

Illusion of Freedom - Martyn Babitz - Review by Monty Rainey

The Keeper of the Flame: The Supreme Court Opinions of Justice Clarence Thomas 1991 - 2005 - Henry Mark Holzer - Review by Monty Rainey

Major Problems in American Constitutional History: Documents and Essays - Kermit Hall - Review by Monty Rainey

New Views of the Constitution of the United States - by John Taylor of Caroline - Review by Monty Rainey

Real Threat and Mere Shadow: Religious Liberty and the First Amendment - Daniel L. Dreisbach - Review by Monty Rainey

Scalia Dissents: Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice - Kevin A. Ring - Review by Monty Rainey

The People Themselves - Larry D. Kramer - Review by Monty Rainey

Diversity

Is Multiculturalism Bad for Women?  Susan Moller Okin - Review by Brenda Walker

Joined at the Heart - Al & Tipper Gore - Review by Johannes L. Jacobsen

Social Problems in a Free Society: Myths, Absurdities and Realities - Myles J. Kelleher - Review by Monty Rainey

Unfounded Loyalty: An In-Depth Look into the Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats - Wayne Perryman - Review by Monty Rainey

Environment

Environment, Scarcity, and Violence - Thomas F. Homer-Dixon - Review by  Carol Joyal

Foreign Affairs

A Durable Peace - Benyamin Netanyahu - Review by Monty Rainey

The Jewish State - Yorum Hazony - Review by Monty Rainey

Jihad In The West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries - Paul Fregosi - Review by Monty Rainey

Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict - Mitchell Geoffrey Bard - Review by Monty Rainey

Founders

Alexander Hamilton: A Biography - Forrest MacDonald - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman - Don Higginbotham - Review by Monty Rainey

The Essential Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers - Edited by David Wootton - Review by Monty Rainey

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin - By H.W. Brands - Review by Monty Rainey

Founders Almanac - Matthew Spalding - Review by Monty Rainey

Founding Brothers - Joseph Ellis - Review by Wayne M. Smith

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington - Richard Brookhiser - Review by Monty Rainey

Founding Fathers: Uncommon Heroes - Steven Allen - Review by Monty Rainey

Franklin: The Essential Founding Father - James Srodes - Review by Monty Rainey

Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Patriotism of Patrick Henry - David Vaughan - Review by Monty Rainey

John Adams: A Life - John Ferling - Review by Wayne A. Smith

New     John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot - Harlow Giles Unger - Review by Monty Rainey

John Jay: Founding Father - Walter Stahr - Review by Monty Rainey

Life of Patrick Henry - William Wirt - Review by Monty Rainey

Patriarch : George Washington and the New American Nation - Richard Norton Smith - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution - A. J. Langguth - Review by Monty Rainey

Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different - Gordon S. Wood - Review by Monty Rainey

Samuel Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution - Benjamin Irvin - Review by Monty Rainey

General Interests

America Will March Forward: A Primer for Patriots - Arthur Milton - Review by Monty Rainey

Black Rednecks White Liberals - Thomas Sowell - Review by Monty Rainey

Condi: The Condoleezza Rice Story - Antonia Felix - Review by Monty Rainey

Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws - Andrew Napolitano -Review by Monty Rainey

Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality - Olaf Gersemann - Review by Monty Rainey

Disinformation: 22 Media Myths That Undermine the War on Terror - Richard Miniter - Review by Monty Rainey

I Love You Ronnie - Book of letters to Nancy Reagan - Review by Monty Rainey

If It's Not Close, They Can't Cheat - Hugh Hewitt - Review by Monty Rainey 

Into the Unknown: Leadership Lessons From Lewis and Clark's Daring Westward Expedition - Jack Undrich - Review by Monty Rainey

On Classical Economics - Thomas Sowell - Review by Monty Rainey

The Professors - David Horowitz - Review by Monty Rainey

What Would the Founders Do?: Our Questions, Their Answers - Richard Brookhiser - Review by Monty Rainey

Winning The Future: A 21st Century Contract With America Reviewed by Fredrick Meekin

Historical Fiction

Gone for Soldiers - Jeff Shaara - Review by Monty Rainey

Rise To Rebellion - Jeff Shaara - Review by Monty Rainey

The Glorious Cause - Jeff Shaara - Review by Monty Rainey

To the Last Man - Jeff Shaara - Review by Monty Rainey

History

American Originals - Stacey Bredhoff & John Carlin - Review by Wayne A. Smith

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence - Pauline Maier - Review by Monty Rainey

America: The Last Best Hope: From the Age of Discovery to a World at War - William J. Bennett - Review by Monty Rainey

Booknotes: Stories from American History: Leading Historians on the Events That Shaped Our Country - by Brian Lamb - Review by Monty Rainey

Churchill: A Study in Greatness - Geoffrey Best - Review by Monty Rainey

The General and the Jaguar: Pershing's Hunt for Poncho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge - Eileen Welsome - Review by Monty Rainey

The Life of Billy Dixon, Plainsman, Scout and Pioneer - Olive K. Dixon - Review by Monty Rainey

The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America - Colin G. Calloway - Review by Monty Rainey

Shays Rebellion: The American Revolutions Final Battle - Leonard L Richards - Review by Monty Rainey

The Story of America - Allen Weinstein - Review by Monty Rainey

Texas Constables: A Frontier Heritage - Allen G. Hartley - Review by Monty Rainey

Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution - Stephen L. Hardin - Review by Monty Rainey

Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West -  Stephen Ambrose - Review by Monty Rainey

We The People, Vol. I, Laying The Foundation - Dr. James F. Gauss - Review by Monty Rainey

New      The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl - Timothy Egan - Review by Monty Rainey

Immigration

Heaven's Door - George Borjas - Review by Carol Joyal

Huddled Masses - Kenneth Lee - Review by Carol Joyal

Illegals: The Imminent Threat Posed by Our Unsecured U.S. Mexico Border - Jon Dougherty - Review by Monty Rainey

In Mortal Danger: The Battle For America's Border and Security - Tom Tancredo - Review by Monty Rainey

Invasion - Michelle Malkin - Review by Monty Rainey

The Congressional Politics of Immigration Reform -  James Gimpel & James Edwards - Review by Carol Joyal

Military

13 Days to Glory: The Siege of the Alamo - Lon Tinkle - Review by Monty Rainey

1776 - David McCollough - Review by Monty Rainey

1918: A Year of Victories - Martin Marix Evans - Review by Monty Rainey

A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic - John Ferling - Review by Monty Rainey

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier - Joseph Plumb Martin & Thomas Fleming - Review by Wayne A. Smith

American Soldier - Gen. Tommy Franks - Review by Monty Rainey

An Honorable Defeat - William Davis - Review by Wayne M. Smith

Ashes of Glory: Richmond at War (Vintage Civil War Library) - Ernest Furgurson - Review by Wayne A. Smith

The Battle of New Orleans: Andrew Jackson and America's First Military Victory - Robt. Remini - Review by Wayne A. Smith

The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice - Alex Kershaw - Review by Monty Rainey

Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters - Dick Winters - Review by Monty Rainey

The Blue and Gray in Black and White - Bob Zeller - Review by Monty Rainey

Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legend and Folklore - B. A. Botkin - Review by Monty Rainey

The Doughboys - Gary Mead - Review by Monty Rainey

New      The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America - Walter Borneman - Review by Monty Rainey

New     The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution - Barbara Tuchman - Review by Monty Rainey

The First World War - John Keegan - Review by Monty Rainey

Gateway to Gettysburg: The Second Battle of Winchester - Larry Maier - Review by Sharpsburg

Gettysburg: A Testing of Courage - Noah Trudeau - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Ghost Soldiers: An Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission - Hampton Sides - Review by Monty Rainey

Lexington and Concord - Arthur Bernon Tourtellot - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Patton: A Study in Command - Maj. Gen. H. Essame - Review by Monty Rainey

The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution - John Buchanan - Review by Monty Rainey

Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway - Jonathan Parshall and Anthony Tully - Review by Monty Rainey

 Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerbarger, Knight's Cross - Geoffrey Brooks - Review by Monty Rainey

The Somme: Heroism and Horror in the First World War - Martin Gilbert - Review by Monty Rainey

New      Through German Eyes: The British and the Somme 1916  - Christopher Duffy - Review by Monty Rainey

Unknown Soldiers: The Story of the Missing of the First World War - Neil Hanson - Review by Monty Rainey

Washington's Crossing - David Hackett Fischer - Review by Monty Rainey

Washington's Spies - Alexander Rose - Review by Monty Rainey

Politics

        ACLU VS America - Alan Sears - Review by Monty Rainey

Let Freedom Ring - Sean Hannity - Review by Monty Rainey

The Right Man - David Frum - Review by Monty Rainey

The Rumsfeld Way - Jeffrey Krames - Review by Monty Rainey

We The People - Dr. James F. Gauss - Review by Monty Rainey

What's Right - David Frum - Review by Monty Rainey

 

Religion And Our Founders

On Two Wings - Michael Novak - Review by Monty Rainey

Original Intent The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion - David Barton - Review by Monty Rainey

Religion and Politics in the Early Republic: Jasper Adams and the Church - State Debate - Daniel Dreisbach - Review by Monty Rainey

Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State - Daniel Dreisbach - Review by Monty Rainey

US Presidents

Blood On The Moon - Edward Steers, Jr. - Review by Wayne A. Smith

In the Words of Ronald Reagan: The Wit, Wisdom and Eternal Optimism of America's 40th President - Michael Reagan - Review by Monty Rainey

Master of the Senate - Robt. Caro - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best and Worst in the White House - William Bennett - Review by Monty Rainey 

Reagan, In His Own Hand - Ronald Reagan - Review by Monty Rainey

Ronald Reagan: The Great Communicator - Fredrick Ryan - Review by Monty Rainey

The Life of Andrew Jackson - Robt. Remini - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Theodore Rex - Edmund Morris - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Theodore Roosevelt: A Life - Nathan Miller - Review by Wayne A. Smith

Thomas Jefferson - R. B. Bernstein - Review by Monty Rainey

Thomas Jefferson and the Revolution of Ideas - R. B. Bernstein - Review by Monty Rainey

 

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