Cracker-barrel Common Sense
How to Test Negative for Stupid: And Why Washington Never Will, by John Kennedy, New York: Broadside Books, 2025, 224 pages, hardcover. If you are told a book is...
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“All Men Are Created Equal”
The Declaration of Independence: 250th Anniversary Guide, Winchester, Hampshire, England: Campana Press, 2025, 100 pages, hardcover. In essence, this is a story of courage — which is not the...
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Deep Dive Into the Royal Navy
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain, 1815-1945, by N.A.M. Rodger, New York: Norton, 2025, 974 pages, hardcover. This authoritative work is the final volume of a...
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Sieving Through the Greenlandic Debate
So You Want to Own Greenland? Lessons from the Vikings to Trump, by Elizabeth Buchanan, London: Melville House, 2025, 202 pages, paperback. Perhaps you have heard: The United States...
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Abetting Beijing’s Burglars
The Great Heist: China’s Epic Campaign to Steal America’s Secrets, by David R. Shedd and Andrew Badger, New York: Harper, 2025, 362 pages, hardcover. There is a geostrategic struggle...
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How the Government Bulldozed Poor Communities, Compounded Ills
The Projects: A New History of Public Housing, by Howard A. Husock, New York: New York University Press, 2025, 240 pages, hardcover. The initial sentences of The Projects: A...
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Globalist Influence Behind U.S. Foreign Policy
Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare, by Edward Fishman, New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2025, 558 pages, hardcover. If all the world’s a stage, then there will always...
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Using Words as Weapons
The CIA Book Club: The Secret Mission to Win the Cold War With Forbidden Literature, by Charlie English, New York: Random House, 2025, 380 pages, hardcover. Freedom is liable...
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Unveiling Roosevelt’s Pathway to the Presidency
Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths, by Mary Grabar, New York: Regnery History, 2025, 380 pages, hardcover. There are plenty of venerating hagiographers of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and...
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Right in the Middle of the Revolutionary War
AT A GLANCE • This book covers major events such as the fall of Fort Ticonderoga, the turning point at Saratoga, and the loss of Charleston. • George Washington’s...
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Raising Red Flags Over Beijing
Seven Things You Can’t Say About China, by Tom Cotton, New York: Broadside Books, 2025, 206 pages, hardcover. ...
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Mobsters and Political Leaders
Wiseguys and the White House: Gangsters, Presidents, and the Deals They Made, by Eric Dezenhall, New York: Harper, 2025, 368 pages, hardcover. ...
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The Promises of Going Nuclear
Chain Reactions: The Hopeful History of Uranium, by Lucy Jane Santos, New York: Pegasus Books, 2024, 288 pages, hardcover. ...
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Deception and the Power of Prayer
The Army That Never Was: George S. Patton and the Deception of Operation Fortitude, by Taylor Downing, New York: Pegasus Books, 2024, 320 pages, hardcover. Patton’s Prayer: A True Story...
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Surveying the Making of Books Over the Years
The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in Eighteen Lives, by Adam Smyth, New York: Basic Books, 2024, 398 pages, hardcover. ...
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Pirates, Plunderers, and Buccaneers
Enemies of All: The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Piracy, by Richard Blakemore, New York: Pegasus Books, 2024, 336 pages, hardcover. ...
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Rising Prices Are Not the Enemy
The War on Prices: How Popular Misconceptions About Inflation, Prices, and Value Create Bad Policy, edited by Ryan A. Bourne, Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2024, 368 pages, hardcover. ...
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A Fresh Assessment of the Southern War Before Yorktown
This Fierce People: The Untold Story of America’s Revolutionary War in the South, by Alan Pell Crawford, New York: Knopf, 396 pages, hardcover. ...
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Dissecting the Biden Crime Family
The Big Guy: How a President and His Son Sold Out America, by Miranda Devine, New York: Broadside Books, 2024, 400 pages, hardcover. ...
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Gripping Tale of Colonial America
The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America, by James L. Swanson, New York: Scribner, 2024, 326 pages, hardcover. ...
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