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What’s So Great About America
by Dinesh D’Souza
Amazon.com Review: Look again at the title of this book: it’s not a question, but a statement. “America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence,” writes Dinesh D’Souza. “American life as it is lived today [is] the best life that our world has to offer.” There are those who hate it, or at least essential elements of it, from radical Islamists to the likes of Patrick Buchanan (on the right) and Jesse Jackson (on the left). But they are wrong to hate it, and D’Souza grapples with all of them in this engaging and compelling volume.
The Crisis of Islam:
Holy War and Unholy Terror
by Bernard Lewis
Amazon.com Review: After the terrorist attacks of September 11, many Americans yearned to understand why Muslim extremists felt such passionate animosity toward the Western world, particularly the United States. Since that historic attack there have been many books and discussions about this very question, but few of them offer such a readable and relevant response as this excellent offering by renowned historian Bernard Lewis (What Went Wrong?).
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
by Edmund Morris
REVIEWS:
“Magnificent…a sweeping narrative of the outward man and a shrewd examination of his character.…It is one of those rare works that is both definitive for the period it covers and fascinating to read for sheer entertainment. There should be a queue awaiting the next volume.”
-W. A. Swanberg, The New York Times Book Review
“Theodore Roosevelt, in this meticulously researched and beautifully written biography, has a claim on being the most interesting man ever to be President of this country.”
-Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times Book Review
A Mind at a Time
“Planet earth is inhabited by all kinds of people who have all kinds of minds...”
by Mel Levine, M.D.
Children have different ways of learning, argues Levine, a professor of pediatrics at the University of North Carolina Medical School and director of its Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning, so why do schools behave as though a one-size-fits-all education will work for everyone?
Levine’s book argues that our educational shortsightedness results in a loss of human potential on a grand scale, as kids who don’t fit the mold are misclassified, stigmatized and then fail. If educators could assess differences more intelligently and redesign educational models to account for these differences, they would radically improve people’s prospects for success in and out of school.
John Adams
by David McCullough
Amazon.com Review: Left to his own devices, John Adams might have lived out his days as a Massachusetts country lawyer, devoted to his family and friends. As it was, events swiftly overtook him, and Adams—who, David McCullough writes, was “not a man of the world” and not fond of politics—came to greatness as the second president of the United States, and one of the most distinguished of a generation of revolutionary leaders.
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