Book Reviews

BOOK REVIEW – DECISION POINTS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Only Yesterday A president remembers what some have forgotten. Philip Terzian November 22, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 10 Decision Points by George W. Bush Crown, 512 pp., $35 The president left the White House with abysmal approval ratings, and a war which had begun well—enjoying widespread support and historic

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BOOK REVIEW – THIS TIME WE WIN: REVISITING THE TET OFFENSIVE

How the Media Turned Victory Into Defeat The Washington Times   November 10, 2010 Reviewed By Gary L. Larson THIS TIME WE WIN: REVISITING THE TET OFFENSIVE By James S. Robbins Encounter Books, $25.95, 364 pages Commonly held misconceptions about the Tet Offensive, a series of attacks by Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese forces during the

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NEWLY RELEASED BOOK, THE “ESSENTIAL AMERICAN” BY JACKIE GINGRICH CUSHMAN

A note from the author regarding her motivation in writing  the “Essential American”. I wrote this book because I believe America is exceptional, that’s a controversial statement. It’s not that we are better than other people, it is that we have a unique system of self government. These great national stories remind us of the

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NEW DEAL OR RAW DEAL?

November 5, 2010 Book asks: New Deal or Raw Deal? By Thomas Sowell, Syndicated Columnist The Picayune Item PICAYUNE — Guess who said the following: “We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.” Was it Sarah Palin? Rush Limbaugh? Karl Rove? Not even

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BOOK REVIEW – RADICAL: A PORTRAIT OF SAUL ALINSKY

THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR The Slaughterhouse The Smallness of Saul By Matthew Vadum from the October 2010 issue Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky By Nicholas von Hoffman (Nation Books, 214 pages, $26.95) “Although Alinsky is described as some kind of liberal left-winger in actuality big government worried him,” writes Saul Alinsky protégé Nicholas von Hoffman

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BOOK REVIEW – THE GRAND JIHAD

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Why We Fight The Islamist dimension to the war on terror. October 11, 2010, Vol. 16, No. 04 The Grand Jihad How Islam and the Left Sabotage America by Andrew McCarthy Encounter, 464 pp., $27.95 The controversy over whether a 13-story building, called Park51, should be erected within 600

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