Congress at War: How Republican Reformers Fought the Civil War, Defied Lincoln, Ended Slavery, and Remade America by Fergus M. Bordewich (Knopf, 480 pages, $32.50) Most Civil War students realize that Congress was ahead of President Lincoln on matters such…
Rand Paul’s new book, The Case Against Socialism, provides clear and compelling evidence as to why socialism begins with alluring promises and ends with starvation and even death for some. Socialism is being promoted this political season with the appealing…
Detail. Detail, detail, and more documented detail. Peter Schweizer has written one best-selling book after another, in which the central focus of his ongoing war on political corruption is seriously documented detail. Past books such as Clinton Cash: The Untold…
The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground by Justus Rosenberg (William Morrow, 288 pages, $28.99) There’s a mini-trend just now in the book publishing biz. It seems to have dawned simultaneously on many 95-plus year-old veterans…
Great Society: A New History by Amity Shlaes (Harper, 511 pages, $32.50) Amity Shlaes’ new book, Great Society, reminds us of the vast folly of our government’s misplaced faith in the collective. At a time when Great Society ideas —…
It is no secret that Mark Levin writes great, insightful books. Whether discussing the Supreme Court in Men in Black, examining the left-wing assault on the Constitution in Liberty and Tyranny, or looking for the essence of American freedom in Ameritopia: The Unmaking of…
The Hidden Nazi: The Untold Story of America’s Deal with the Devil By Dean Reuter, Colm Lowery & Keith Chester (Regnery History, 396 pages, $29.99) The Hidden Nazi uncovers a previously uncovered war criminal, Waffen-SS General Hans Kammler, who was never…
Judge Jeanine Pirro is one smart lawyer — one who has turned out a second bestseller that catches the Left dead to rights. That bestseller is Radicals, Resistance, and Revenge: The Left’s Plot to Remake America. Her first, another bestseller…
Michael Brendan Dougherty is the author of one of this year’s hot books, My Father Left Me Ireland. He was also, for a few years over a decade ago, my roommate. He was one of several people who came and…