Book Reviews

The Return of Marco Polo’s World: War, Strategy, and American Interests in the Twenty-First Century by Robert D. Kaplan -- Reviewed by Taylor Rose - May 2, 2018
Movie Nights with The Reagans: A Memoir by Mark D. Weinberg -- Reviewed by Craig Shirley and Scott Mauer - April 19, 2018
Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency by Cory R. Lewandowski & David N. Bossie -- Reviewed by Gary Hoitsma - April 4, 2018
Martin Luther: The Man Who Rediscovered God and Changed the World by Eric Metaxas -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - March 15, 2018
The Knights Templar: The Rise and Spectacular Fall of God's Holy Warriors by Dan Jones -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - March 1, 2018
The Complete Infidel’s Guide to Free Speech (and Its Enemies) by Robert Spencer -- Reviewed by Mitchell Baxter - February 15, 2018
Earning the Rockies: How Geography Shapes America’s Role in the World by Robert D. Kaplan -- Reviewed by Taylor Rose - January 31, 2018
ARCHITECT OF PROSPERITY: Sir John Cowperthwaite and the Making of Hong Kong by Neil Monnery -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - January 17, 2018
Wind from Heaven: John Paul II – The Poet Who Became Pope by Monika Jablonska; Foreward by Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz -- Reviewed by Pawel Piotr Styrna - December 15, 2017
Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - November 28, 2017
CRUDE NATION: How Oil Riches Ruined Venezuela by Raul Gallegos -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - November 8, 2017
Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles that Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever by Patrick J. Buchanan -- Reviewed by Tom Pauken - October 25, 2017
Lucifer’s Banker: The Untold Story of How I Destroyed Swiss Bank Secrecy by Bradley C. Birkenfeld -- Reviewed by Monica Morrill - October 10, 2017
A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century by Paul Kengor -- Reviewed by John M. Snyder - September 27, 2017
Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry During the Cold War by Gregg A. Brazinsky -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - September 20, 2017
CITIZEN NEWT: The Making of an American Conservative by Craig Shirley -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - September 6, 2017
Trump’s War: His Battle for America by Michael Savage -- Reviewed by Taylor Rose - August 16, 2017
Reflections on Freedom by José Azel -- Reviewed by Jennifer Hernandez - August 1, 2017
China’s Asian Dream: Empire Building Along the New Silk Road by Tom Miller -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - July 20, 2017
Understanding Trump by Newt Gingrich, Forward by Eric Trump -- Reviewed by Monica Morrill - July 4, 2017
A World in Disarray: American Foreign Policy and the Crisis of the Old Order. by Richard Hass -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - June 15, 2017
Creating Settlements for Islam in America by Leo Hohmann -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - June 1, 2017
Margaret Thatcher: At Her Zenith in London, Washington and Moscow by Charles Moore -- Reviewed by Monica Morrill - May 8, 2017
Putin’s Propaganda Machine: Soft Power and Russian Foreign Policy By Marcel H. Van Herpen by Marcel H. Van Herpen -- Reviewed by Stephen R. Bowers - April 27, 2017
We Wanted Workers: Unraveling the Immigration Narrative by George J. Borjas -- Reviewed by Chad M. Burchard - April 12, 2017
Reagan Rising:The Decisive Years, 1976-1980 by Craig Shirley -- Reviewed by Newt Gingrich - March 27, 2017
BIG AGENDA: President Trump’s Plan to Save America by David Horowitz -- Reviewed by John M. Snyder - March 15, 2017
Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire by By Peter H. Wilson -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - March 1, 2017
Putin’s Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, Divide NATO, and Restore Russian Power and Global Influence by By Douglas E. Schoen with Evan Roth Smith -- Reviewed by Pawel Piotr Styrna - February 14, 2017
Crouching TIGER: What China’s Militarism Means for the World by Peter Navarro -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - February 1, 2017
The Knives by Richard T. Kelly -- Reviewed by John Gizzi - January 20, 2017
The Human City – Urbanism for the Rest of Us by Joel Kotkin -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - January 5, 2017
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America and Four Who Tried to Save Her by Brian McClanahan -- Reviewed by Stephen R. Bowers - December 13, 2016
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and ‘Enemies of the State’ by Stephen P. Halbrook -- Reviewed by John M. Snyder - November 29, 2016
The Field of Fight: How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies by Lt. General Michael T. Flynn with Michael Ledeen -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - November 8, 2016
Reagan’s 1968 Dress Rehearsal: IKE, RFK, and Reagan’s Emergence as a World Statesman by Gene Kopelson, -- Reviewed by Irwin Gellman - October 26, 2016
The Brotherhood: America’s Next Great Enemy by Erick Stackelbeck -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - October 5, 2016
'Pinkoes and Traitors’: The BBC and the nation, 1974-1987 by Jean Seaton -- Reviewed by Monica Morrill - September 21, 2016
Last Act: The Final Years and Emerging Legacy of Ronald Reagan by Craig Shirley – Forward by Lou Cannon -- Reviewed by Gary Hoitsma - September 6, 2016
The Conservative Rebellion by Richard Bishirjian -- Reviewed by Steven Alan Samson - August 23, 2016
In Europe’s Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - August 9, 2016
1932: The Rise of Hitler & FDR—Two Tales of Politics, Betrayal, and Unlikely Destiny by David Pietrusza -- Reviewed by Andrew Thomas - July 26, 2016
Spiro Agnew and the Rise of the Republican Right by Justin P. Coffey -- Reviewed by David Pietrusza - July 10, 2016
Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War by Sebastian L. Gorka -- Reviewed by Maria Juczewska - June 22, 2016
The New Totalitarian Temptation: Global Governance and the Crisis of Democracy in Europe by Todd Huizinga -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - June 7, 2016
The Long War and Common Core & Everything You Need to Know to Win the War! by Donna H. Hearne -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - May 17, 2016
The Lost Mandate of Heaven: The American Betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem, President of Vietnam by Geoffrey D.T. Shaw -- Reviewed by Tom Pauken - May 3, 2016
The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and its Aftermath by Ben S. Bernanke -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - April 19, 2016
Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core Is Bad for America by By Sandra Stotsky and 11 contributors; Edited with an introduction by Peter Wood -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - April 4, 2016
It IS About Islam by Glenn Beck -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - March 23, 2016
Government Zero: No Borders, No Language, No Culture by Michael Savage -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - March 8, 2016
Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again by Donald J. Trump -- Reviewed by John M. Snyder - February 23, 2016
Christian Persecutions in the Middle East: A 21st Century Tragedy by George J. Marlin -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - February 11, 2016
The Hundred -Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower by Michael Pillsbury -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - January 25, 2016
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History by Brian Kilmeade & Don Yaeger -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - January 13, 2016
Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools? by Mercedes Schneider -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - December 8, 2015
Plunder and Deceit: Big Government’s Exploitation of Young People and the Future by Mark Levin -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - November 17, 2015
A Time for Truth: Reigniting the Promise of America by Ted Cruz -- Reviewed by Gary Hoitsma - November 2, 2015
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by General Stanley McChrystal U.S. Army, Retired -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - October 19, 2015
The President and the Apprentice: Eisenhower and Nixon, 1952-1961 by Irwin F. Gellman -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - October 7, 2015
The Israeli Solution: A One-State Plan For Peace In The Middle East by Caroline B. Glick -- Reviewed by Aaron Marcus - September 22, 2015
Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Insurgency by Virginia Comolli -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - September 10, 2015
The Last Warrior: Andrew Marshall and the Shaping of Modern American Defense Strategy by Andrew Krepinevich and Barry Watts -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - August 19, 2015
Hollywood Traitors – Blacklisted Screenwriters: Agents of Stalin, Allies of Hitler by Allan Ryskind -- Reviewed by Irwin Gellman - August 5, 2015
11 Principles of a Reagan Conservative by Paul Kengor -- Reviewed by Stephen R. Bowers - July 21, 2015
The Miracle of the Kurds by Stephen Mansfield -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - July 7, 2015
Sagebrush Rebel by William Perry Pendley -- Reviewed by Gary Hoitsma - June 15, 2015
Let Me Be Clear: Barack Obama’s War on Millennials, and One Woman’s Case for Hope by Katie Kieffer -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - June 3, 2015
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice by Bill Browder -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - May 11, 2015
The Devils’ Alliance: Hitler’s Pact with Stalin, 1939-1941 by Roger Moorhouse -- Reviewed by Pawel Piotr Styrna - April 29, 2015
The Pity Party: A Mean-Spirited Diatribe Against Liberal Compassion by William Voegeli -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - April 15, 2015
Tough Man, Tender Chicken: Business & Life Lessons from Frank Perdue by Mitzi Perdue -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - March 31, 2015
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - March 16, 2015
World Order by Henry Kissinger -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - March 3, 2015
Blue Collar Conservatives: Recommitting to an America that Works by Rick Santorum -- Reviewed by Gary Hoitsma - February 17, 2015
Merger of the Century, Why Canada and America Should Become One Country by Diane Francis -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - February 4, 2015
The North American Idea: A Vision of a Continental Future by Robert A. Pastor -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - January 29, 2015
Law of the Jungle: The $19 Billion Legal Battle over Oil in the Rain Forest and the Lawyer Who’d Stop at Nothing to Win by Paul M. Barrett -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - December 2, 2014
Rise of ISIS: A Threat We Can’t Ignore by Jay Sekulow -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - November 18, 2014
Outsider Inside The Supreme Court: A Decisive First Amendment Battle by Shaun McCutcheon -- Reviewed by Paul Kamenar - November 4, 2014
First Globals: Understanding, Managing, and Unleashing Our Millennial Generation by John Zogby & Joan Snyder Kuhl -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - October 28, 2014
Assault and Flattery: The Truth About the Left and Their War on Women by Katie Pavlich -- Reviewed by Taylor Rose - October 21, 2014
Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Phillip Short -- Reviewed by John Gizzi - October 8, 2014
REAGAN AT REYKJAVIK: Forty-Eight Hours That Ended the Cold War by Ken Adelman -- Reviewed by William R. Hawkins - September 21, 2014
The Arab Cocoon: Progress and Modernity in Arab Societies by Tarek Heggy -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - September 16, 2014
Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason Riley -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - September 4, 2014
Faithless Execution by Andrew C. McCarthy -- Reviewed by Andrew Thomas - August 26, 2014
America: Imagine A World Without Her by Dinesh D’Souza -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - August 7, 2014
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World by Daniel Hannan -- Reviewed by Taylor Rose - July 29, 2014
To Make and Keep Peace Among Ourselves and with All Nations by Angelo M. Codevilla -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - July 22, 2014
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered by Lynne Cheney -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - July 8, 2014
Inside Castro’s Bunker: The True Story of Fidel Castro’s Inner Circle as Told by One of His Most Trusted Generals by Rafael del Pino -- Reviewed by Brian Latell - June 30, 2014
Conform: Exposing the Truth about Common Core and Public Education by Glenn Beck with Kyle Olson -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - May 29, 2014
Emily Gets Her Gun….But Obama Wants to Take Yours by Emily Miller -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - April 24, 2014
Betrayed: The Shocking True Story of Extortion 17 as told by a Navy SEAL’s Father by Billy Vaughn with Monica Morrill & Cari Blake
Introduction by Jerry Boykin Lt. Gen. US Army (Ret.) -- Reviewed by Morgan Norval - April 8, 2014
The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, And Their Secret World War by Stephen Kinzer -- Reviewed by John Gizzi - March 18, 2014
What Lies Across the Water: The Real Story of the Cuban Five by Stephen Kimber -- Reviewed by Stuart M. Hoyt, Jr. - March 12, 2014
The Story-Killers: A Common-Sense Case Against the Common Core by Terence O. Moore -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - January 7, 2014
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography From Grantham to the Falklands by Charles Moore -- Reviewed by Monica Morrill - December 17, 2013
Eco-Fascists: How Radical Conservationists Are Destroying Our Natural Heritage by Elizabeth Nickson -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - December 10, 2013
How Civilizations Die (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) by David P. Goldman -- Reviewed by Georgiana Constantin - November 18, 2013
The End of Power by Moisés Naím -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - October 28, 2013
If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement by David B. Frisk -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - October 4, 2013
Divided Highways: Building the Interstate Highways, Transforming American Life by Tom Lewis -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - September 17, 2013
COOLIDGE by Amity Shlaes -- Reviewed by Andrew Thomas - September 4, 2013
Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-1956 by Anne Applebaum -- Reviewed by Stephen R. Bowers - August 22, 2013
The Afrika Reich by Guy Saville -- Reviewed by John Gizzi - August 14, 2013
On the Edge of the Cold War: American Diplomats and Spies in Postwar Prague by Igor Lukes -- Reviewed by Pawel Piotr Styrna - July 25, 2013
Exiled: Stories From Conservative and Moderate Professors Who Have Been Ridiculed, Ostracized, Marginalized, Demonized and Frozen Out by Mary Grabar, Ph.D -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - June 12, 2013
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV by Robert A. Caro -- Reviewed by Bruce Branick - June 10, 2013
Radicals: Portraits of a Destructive Passion by David Horowitz -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - May 10, 2013
Fighting the Ideological War: Winning Strategies from Communism to Islamism by Katherine C. Gorka and Patrick Sookhedo -- Reviewed by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz - April 26, 2013
The Greatest Hoax: How The Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future by U.S. Senator James Inhofe -- Reviewed by Richard Bornemann - April 16, 2013
Here Come the Black Helicopters! UN Global Governance and the Loss of Freedom by Dick Morris & Eileen McGann -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - April 9, 2013
Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care? by Neil Gross -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - April 3, 2013
Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine by Brian Latell -- Reviewed by Stuart M. Hoyt, Jr. - March 25, 2013
Agenda 21 by Glenn Beck with Harriet Parke -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - March 19, 2013
Intermarium: The Land between the Black and Baltic Seas by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz -- Reviewed by Nicholas Dima - March 12, 2013
I-69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway by Matt Dellinger -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - January 22, 2013
Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein -- Reviewed by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz - January 8, 2013
Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power by Steve Coll -- Reviewed by Gustavo Coronel - December 4, 2012
Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts by Antonin Scalia -- Reviewed by Rachel Alexander - November 27, 2012
It Was a Long Time Ago, and It Never Happened Anyway: Russia and the Communist Past by David Satter -- Reviewed by Marek Jan Chodakiewicz - October 24, 2012
Obama's America: Unmaking the American Dream by Dinesh D'Souza -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - October 15, 2012
Dangerous Business: The Risks of Globalization for America by Pat Choate -- Reviewed by Terri Hall - October 12, 2012
Spreading the Wealth: How Obama Is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities by Stanley Kurtz -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - October 2, 2012
The Communist, Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mentor by Paul Kengor, Ph.D. -- Reviewed by Mary Grabar - September 4, 2012
Front Burner: Al Qaeda's Attack on the USS Cole by Kirk S. Lippold -- Reviewed by Bruce Branick - August 20, 2012
The Rise of Nuclear Iran: How Tehran Defies the West by Dore Gold -- Reviewed by Daniel Greenfield - August 17, 2012
Hatred's Kingdom: How Saudi Arabia Supports the New Global Terrorism by Dore Gold -- Reviewed by Daniel Greenfield - August 2, 2012
Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power by Zbigniew Brzezinski -- Reviewed by Pawel Piotr Styrna - May 29, 2012

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