This excellent book is about democracy, but without democracy being in it. Instead, democracy cries in the shadows of every line,

The author bumped up the rhetoric, but not by much. The leaders in the book no longer pretend the dog whistles they publish are a joke, or a misunderstanding

I hated the author’s passive-aggressive agenda. It just rubbed me the wrong way and seemed hell-bent on incorporating it into his book

The author looks at different aspects of society, and the people living in it, ruminates on them, and then reexamines his findings to shed a new light on them

This is one of the best historical fiction books I’ve read in a while, it revolves around a 23-year-old Caesar taking on a corrupt Roman Bureaucrat, in court

Discover the true essence of Teddy Roosevelt in “The Old Lion,” a novel by Jeff Shaara that captures the President’s persona, manners, & vulnerabilities

The Israel/Palestine conflict, of course, can fill hundreds of books, but it goes to show the gray moral ambiguity of all the characters.

The story takes place during the defining decades of 1917 to 1965. These are not only decades which defined Korea, but also the world as we know it

Count Alexander Rostov has been deemed a “non-person” by a Bolshevik tribunal. He is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol hotel, across from the Kremlin.

This is a short book, a novella, with a lot to say. The interviewer in this book seem to ask questions she cares about, different from other reporters.