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Robert D. Parmet: Review of Eric Laursen's "The People's Pension: The...
Robert D. Parmet is professor of history at York College of the City University of New York.In 1964 Barry Goldwater discovered that suggestions to reduce or replace Social Security can be politically...
View ArticleJohn Nagl: Review of Max Boot's "Invisible Armies"
Mr. Nagl, a retired Army officer, is the author of "Learning to Eat Soup With a Knife" and helped write "The U.S. Army/Marine Corps Counterinsurgency Field Manual."In 2003, I deployed to Anbar Province...
View ArticleRon Radosh: Review of Anne Applebaum's "Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern...
Ron Radosh is a PJ Media columnist and Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute.At the end of World War II, Eastern and Central Europe were “liberated” from Nazism only to see it replaced by a social...
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Jim Cullen: Review of David Shambaugh's "China Goes Global: The Partial...
Jim Cullen, who teaches at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School in New York, is a book review editor at HNN. His new book, Sensing the Past: Hollywood Stars and Historical Visions, has just been...
View ArticleAvishai Margalit: Review of Hadara Lazar's "Out of Palestine: The Making of...
Avishai Margalit is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the winner of the 2012 Philosophical Book Award (Hanover) for his most recent book, On Compromise and...
View ArticleMurray Polner: Review of Aida D. Donald’s “Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry...
Murray Polner is a regular book reviewer for HNN.Source: Special to HNN Date: 2-3-13 read more
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Andrew Feffer: Review of Marjorie Heins’s "Priests of Our Democracy: The...
Andrew Feffer is a Professor of History and Co-Director of Film Studies at Union College in Schenectady, NY. He is currently writing a book on the impact of the Rapp-Coudert investigation on the...
View ArticleJeremy Kuzmarov: Review of Joshua Bloom and Waldo E. Martin Jr.'s "Black...
Jeremy Kuzmarov is J.P. Walker associate professor of history at the University of Tulsa and author of The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (Massachusetts, 2009) and...
View ArticleRon Briley: Review of Richard Lingeman's "The Noir Forties: The American...
Ron Briley reviews books for the History News Network and is a history teacher and an assistant headmaster at Sandia Preparatory School, Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is the author of "The Politics of...
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Luther Spoehr: Review of Robert Sullivan's "My American Revolution: Crossing...
Luther Spoehr is a book editor for HNN and senior lecturer at Brown University.As a native Pennsylvanian, I’m always glad to see the Middle Atlantic states get their historical due, even when, as in...
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Murray Polner: Review of Sam Roberts's "Grand Central: How a Train Station...
Murray Polner is a regular book reviewer for HNN.Compared to shabby and uninspiring Penn Station, Manhattan’s other train station on the west side of Manhattan, the latest version of Grand Central...
View ArticleCharles L. Ponce de Leon: Review of Douglas Brinkley's "Cronkite"
Charles L. Ponce de Leon, an associate professor of History and American Studies at California State University, Long Beach, is completing a book on the history of television news.More than thirty...
View ArticleAlex Joffe: Review of Halik Kochanski’s "The Eagle Unbowed: Poland and the...
Alex Joffe received his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Studies from the University of Arizona in 1991.The adage “history is written by the winners” is no more than a half-truth. Losers, too, have always written...
View ArticleRichard J. Evans: Review of Eric Hobsbawm's "Fractured Times: Culture and...
Richard J Evans's The Third Reich at War is published by PenguinEric Hobsbawm was the best-known and most celebrated historian of the 20th century, not just in Britain but all over the world. His major...
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Bernard von Bothmer: Review of Ron Reagan's "My Father at 100" (Viking...
Bernard von Bothmer is an adjunct professor of history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University. He is the author of "Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade from Ronald...
View ArticleLuther Spoehr: Review of Jill Lepore’s “The Story of America: Essays on...
Luther Spoehr is an HNN book editor and a senior lecturer at Brown University.Source: Special to HNN Date: 5-4-13 read more
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Bernard von Bothmer: Review of Harold Holzer's "The Civil War in 50 Objects"...
Bernard von Bothmer is an adjunct professor of history at the University of San Francisco and Dominican University of California. He is the author of "Framing the Sixties: The Use and Abuse of a Decade...
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Luther Spoehr: Review of David L. Kirp’s “Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of...
Luther Spoehr, an HNN book editor and senior lecturer at Brown University, teaches about the history of American school reform.David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California at...
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Murray Polner: Review of Kenneth T. MacLeish’s "Making War at Fort Hood: Life...
Murray Polner, a regular HNN book reviewer, wrote “No Victory Parades: The Return of the Vietnam Veteran” and edited and wrote “When Can We Come Home?”Fort Hood, in Texas, is named after Confederate...
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Murray Polner: Review of Richard Breitman and Allan Lichtman's "FDR and the...
Murray Polner is a book reviewer for HNN.Years after World War II ended I often visited Manhattan’s Washington Heights neighborhood, nicknamed the “Fourth Reich” because of its large number of Central...
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