201. Review-Southcrop Forest
January 22, 2010
Southcrop Forest, Lorne Rothman, 2008, ISBN 9780595495887
This novel is about the trees of Southcrop Forest, a forest in crisis. Reduced to little more than a forest fragment, they are hemmed in on all sides by human sprawl. There is a great feeling of despair, for the trees know that the ...
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202. Review-Who Really Won the Space Race?
January 17, 2010
Who Really Won the Space Race?, Thom Burnett, 2005, ISBN 1843402904
This book looks at the history of the "Space Race" between America and the Soviet Union, and asserts that America could have put a satellite into orbit a year before the Russians.
At the end of World War II, America ...
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203. Review-Dumbocracy
December 28, 2009
Dumbocracy: Adventures With the Loony Left, the Rabid Right and Other American Idiots, Marty Beckerman, 2008, ISBN 9781934708064
The author spent four years visiting with political extremists on both sides of the spectrum. These are people who believe in nothing less than total victory for...
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204. Review-Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight! How Progressives Can Win
November 16, 2009
Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win, Robert Creamer, 2007, ISBN 0979585295
Based on four decades of hands-on experience, this book shows how, for political progressives, being right on the issues is less important than being the winner.
A campaign sho...
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205. Review-The Upside of Fear: How One Man Broke the Cycle of Prison, Poverty and Addiction
November 16, 2009
The Upside of Fear, Weldon Long, 2009, ISBN 9781608320004
This is the true story of one man’s journey from rags to riches.
The author was a twenty-something alcoholic high school dropout; overall, a pretty dislikable person. One night, driving around in his pickup, he picks up a hi...
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206. Review-From Prison to Paycheck
November 13, 2009
From Prison to Paycheck: What No One Ever Tells You About Getting a Job, Pam Hogan, Community Press, 2007
Among the many challenges faced by those just released from prison is that of getting a job. Those with a job are much more likely to stay out of prison than those without one. This bo...
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207. Review-Broken Gourds
November 05, 2009
Broken Gourds, Beresford McLean, 2004, ISBN 0975329707
In present-day Jamaica, the government wants to build a road that will greatly help the small town of Albion. The problem is that the route will force the demolishing of an old, decrepit building with a sign that says "Balm Yard and Ho...
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208. Review-Scarecrow in Gray
October 31, 2009
Scarecrow in Gray, Barry D. Yelton, 2006, ISBN 9780595401857
Francis Yelton (actual ancestor of the author) is a reluctant participant in the last months of the Civil War. He would much rather stay on his North Carolina farm, but, he also does not want to be known as the 19th Century equiv...
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209. Review-War of Necessity, War of Choice
October 29, 2009
War of Necessity, War of Choice, Richard N. Haass, 2009, ISBN 9781416549024
This book explores the planning for both Iraq wars, in 1991 and 2003, by one of the few people in a senior Washington position for both conflicts.
The 1991 Gulf War does a very good job of fitting the definit...
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210. Review-Dr Mary's Monkey
October 12, 2009
Dr. Mary’s Monkey, Edward T. Haslam, 2007, ISBN 9780977795307
This book gives a very different view of recent American history.
In the 1950s, Jonas Salk developed a vaccine against polio, then ravaging America. It involved inoculating children with dead polio viruses, so their bodi...
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Author: Paul Lappen
