united states of america

July 25, 2021

Review: Empire of the Summer Moon, S.C. Gwynne

Rating: 3 out of 5 Parts of this book were really good, such as the author’s extensive description of early Texas Rangers and how…

June 22, 2021

Rating: 5.5 out of 5 This book… I have rarely been as involved in the story as I was in the gigantic combat between…

May 14, 2021

Rating: 5 out of 5 Before I started this book, I didn’t have the first clue about Lyndon B. Johnson, and I hadn’t been…

March 3, 2021

Rating: 3 out of 5 This was a solid overview of all of the American revolutions—and this is where I went astray—but it doesn’t…

December 13, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 I’m not in two minds after finishing this book—but I can’t deny that when I started it sounded a…

October 14, 2020

Ticonderoga has a name which might be difficult to remember at first, but once it’s in a mind it’s also unlikely to be forgotten….

October 11, 2020

Rating: 2 out of 5 Mr O’Donnell’s scholarship for this work is impressive, no doubt, but I found the presentation complex and illogical. The…

September 3, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 So… This was a complex work, though still more an introduction given the span of time Mr Guelzo covered….

August 29, 2020

Rating: 4 out of 5 This was a really interesting read for me: trying to understand how the United States came to be and…

August 19, 2020

Rating: 5 out of 5 There is something fundamentally simple in Mr Bryson’s approach. While we aren’t dealing with a historian extraordinaire, it is…