Book Review
Casino Capitalism
Wall Street is a “casino” where the dice are “loaded in favor of the bankers and the ultra-rich,” according to economist Susmit Kumar in his frighteningly thought-provoking work, "Casino Capitalism". Hedge fund managers have...
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The Bow of Heaven: Book 1
“A word of advice,” cautions Alexander, the narrator and hero of Andrew Levkoff’s The Bow of Heaven. “If you can possibly avoid it, do not get shot.” Such wry asides are plentiful in this tale of a Greek student “harvested...
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Lincoln & Davis
Abraham Lincoln once claimed his best friend was “the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read,” writes Augustin Stucker in his thoroughly researched and lively “dual biography” of the sixteenth president of the United States...
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Terrorism, An Unconventional Crime
“The death of Osama bin Laden will not put an end to terrorism,” cautions Dr. Vahab Aghai in his short, tightly written, and quite thorough primer, "Terrorism, An Unconventional Crime". While bin Laden’s death was a satisfying...
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The Reluctant General
“I had been all that I could be in the Army,” writes retired Brigadier General Billy R. Cooper, with evident pride and satisfaction, in his memoir "The Reluctant General". For this poor, African-American farm boy from Texas, the army...
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Asim
“He deserves a battle so glorious it will please Allah,” says the villain in crafting the manner in which he will take down the Ottoman warrior Asim, the hero of D.W. Smith’s thoroughly engrossing novel of assassins and intrigues...
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American Sailors and United States Marines at War and Peace
“I like the Navy,” proudly proclaims retired Admiral Harold Koenig in one of the fifty-two entries in Donald Johnson’s collection of tales, quips, poems, and oral histories by and about those who served in the fleet or its corps of...
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Majesty's Offspring
Majesty’s Offspring is a rollicking hoot of a space opera. With all the elements of a fun adventure, A.J. Vega’s convoluted yet entertaining yarn of lusty space pirates, nasty underworld drug kingpins, greedy corporate types, and...