This comprehensive analysis of Hezbollah is meticulously detailed and made gripping by a flowing narrative. Few non-followers of Shi’a fundamentalism would consider Hezbollah “the party of God.” Although recognized as a legitimate... Read More

Younge reminds us of the meaning of King’s famous speech, and how it was not remembered until after his assassination. “I have a dream” evokes memories of Martin Luther King Jr.‘s iconic speech at the August 28, 1963, March on... Read More

In Cuauhtémoc: Descending Eagle, the story of a sixteenth-century Mayan child who grows to become a great leader by the time he is twelve, D.L. Davies’s vivid character descriptions are undermined by an unrealistic portrayal of an... Read More

Journalist tells the thrilling story of two nineteenth century Yankee reporters who escaped a Southern prison while covering the Civil War. It takes one to know one. Or, in this case, two, as Peter Carlson, who spent twenty-two years as... Read More

A powerful voice for integration and the oppressed, baseball and civil rights icon shows his humanitarian nature. After Jackie Robinson ended his major league career with the Brooklyn Dodgers, he became a nationally syndicated columnist... Read More

Myukis, or Voldoya, as he is familiarly known, was a Russian-American artist of some talent who might have been famous had he really lived. This imaginative, sometimes funny, sometimes frustrating novel was inspired by Daniel Marcus’s... Read More

No magazine covered the bloody and turbulent events of the civil rights movement more faithfully than Jet. Years before the brutal treatment of blacks was acknowledged in the white mainstream press, Jet, according to comedian and... Read More

Telling the Civil War’s story through these personal letters from those who fought it provides unforgettable descriptions of brutal battles, extreme living conditions, the hopes of slaves, the living hell of prisons, and unsanitary and... Read More