In Defense of the Bush Doctrine (Contemporary Issues in ...
Bush Administration Talking Points With Citations: The easiest way to review this is via ideology. People favorably inclined toward Bush will like it; those who oppose him will hate it. But since the author elected to publish it with a university press, [... more]
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Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the ...
Ummm, is this a textbook?: Is this a textbook?...because it reads like one, or better yet, a doctorial thesis. This book is boring, dry and dull. I was intrigued by the idea...Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich, but the first 200 pages [... more]
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Daniel Boone: An American Life
A Detailed Portrait of the Woodsman in the Wilderness: I blame television. When reading _Daniel Boone: An American Life_ (University Press of Kentucky) by Michael A. Lofaro, I realized that I didn't know anything about Daniel Boone. I thought he wore a [... more]
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Big Government and Affirmative Action: The Scandalous ...
A Smoothly Written and Often Amusing Policy History: "In "Big Government and Affirmative Action," Jonathan J. Bean tells the story of the role of small business in the growth of the American state. This compact account is a fine sequel to [... more]
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Jefferson's Declaration of Independence: Origins, ...
Wonderful book on the source of Jefferson's ideas: For generations, historians have examined the Declaration of Independence looking for the source of Jefferson's ideas. Many have looked to John Locke and his Second Treatise on Government as the main [... more]
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Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945
Well Written Description of the German People being Bombed.: ýUnder The Bombsý by Earl R. Beck, Sub-titled: ýThe German Home Front 1942-1945ý, University Press of Kentucky, 1986. History Professor Earl R. Beck understands the [... more]
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It's Only a Movie!: Films and Critics in American Culture
Where have all the critics gone?: As a film critic for several online sites, I share with others of my vocation a distress that while the public may be reading us, the reviews themselves seem to be influencing only a few in their choices of films. I like [... more]
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Raising the Devil: Satanism, New Religions, and the Media
Bedeviled: It was a great show while it lasted, the subject of fervent newspaper reports, television specials and an exposé by Geraldo Rivera in the 1980s. Satanism was rampant across America, nay, the world, with protean manifestations, if people [... more]
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Out of the Inkwell: Max Fleischer and the Animation ...
An Animation Giant: Everyone knows Walt Disney and his animated creation Mickey Mouse. When cartoons were just starting to become standards of entertainment, however, Disney had one real competitor, whose name is not as well known to the public but is [... more]
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Secrets of the Sideshows (None)
Hurry, Hurry! Step Right This Way!: For centuries, millions of people have enjoyed looking at commercial exhibits of the odd and curious. Joe Nickell is one of those people. Growing up in Kentucky, he never missed the carnivals and circuses that had [... more]
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In Defense of the Bush Doctrine
Bush Administration Talking Points With Citations: The easiest way to review this is via ideology. People favorably inclined toward Bush will like it; those who oppose him will hate it. But since the author elected to publish it with a university press, [... more]
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Through Mobility We Conquer: The Mechanization of U.S. ...
Best Work on the Subject!: Through Mobility We Conquer is, to date, the most significant scholarly work to focus exclusively on mechanization in the U.S. Cavalry from World War I through the abolition of the branch following World War II. While the topic [... more]
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