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Books Reviewed (By review date):

Volk's Game (2007) - Brent Ghelfi (-) (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Jul-08)

Classic Cubs: A Tribute to the Men and Magic of Wrigley Field (2008) - John Hanley (1962-) - Chris De Luca (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-08)

Super-Detective Flip Book: Two Complete Novels (November 1940/March 1943) - "John" "Grange" (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-08)

The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won (2008) - Peter Navarro (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-08)

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) - Rick Perlstein (1969-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 29-May-08)

The Truth about Syria (2007) - Barry Rubin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-May-08)

Tracks (2007) - Jim Black (1953-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-May-08)

Silence of the Grave: A Reykjavik Thriller (2006) - Arnaldur Indriadson (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

Voices: A Reykjavik Thriller (2003) - Arnaldur Indriadson (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller (2000) - Arnaldur Indriadson (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-May-08)

In an Instant: A Family's Journey of Love and Healing (2007) - Bob Woodruff (08/18/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Apr-08)

An Incomplete Revenge: A Maisie Dobbs Novel (2008) - Jacqueline Winspear (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 15-Apr-08)

Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill (2003) - Michael Dobbs (11/14/1948-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-08)

Torture and Democracy (2007) - Darius Rejali (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-08)

Microtrends: The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow's Big Changes (2007) - Mark Penn (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Feb-08)

Why the Democrats are Blue: Secular Liberalism and the Decline of the People's Party (2007) - Mark Stricherz (1970-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-08)

Hurricane Season: A Coach, His Team, and Their Triumph in the Time of Katrina (2007) - Neal Thompson (1965-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-08)

Shooting War (2007) - Dan Goldman (11/05/1974-) - Anthony Lappe (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-07)

Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes (2007) - Daniel Klein (-) - Thomas Cathcart (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-07)

Red Moon Rising: Sputnik and the Hidden Rivalries that Ignited the Space Age (2007) - Matthew Brzezinski (-) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Dec-07)

Edwin Arlington Robinson: A Poet's Life (2007) - Scott Donaldson (1928-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-07)

America's Living History - The Early Years (A Traveler's Guide) (2007) - Suzanne & Craig Sheumaker (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-07)

Roman Blood (1991) - Steven Saylor (05/23/1956-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-07)

An Infamous Army (1937) - Georgette Heyer (08/16/1902-07/04/1974)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Oct-07)

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy) (2007) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Oct-07)

Desolation Island (1978) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914-01/02/2000)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Oct-07)

World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War (2006) - Max Michael Brooks (05/22/1972-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-07)

Resurrection Men (2003) - Ian Rankin (1960-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Oct-07)

The Miernik Dossier (1973) - Charles McCarry (1930-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-07)

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) - Nassim Nicholas Taleb (1960-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-07)

Guinness: The 250 Year Quest for the Perfect Pint (2007) - Bill Yenne (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 21-Sep-07)

Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800 (2006) - Jeff Sypeck (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Sep-07)

Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the Wes (2006) - Alex Grobman (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-07)

A Nail Through the Heart (2007) - Timothy Hallinan (1942-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-07)

Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power (2007) - Marcus Mabry (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-07)

Jake's Run (2006) - Jerome R. Mahoney (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Jun-07)

The Shadowers (1964) - Donald Bengtsson Hamilton (03/24/1916-11/20/2006)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-07)

Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution (2007) - David A. Clary (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 28-Jun-07)

Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr. (2007) - Burt Boyar (1927-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Jun-07)

Tell Me a Story: Timeless folktales from around the world (2006) - Amy Friedman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-May-07)

Calvin Coolidge : The American Presidents Series (2006) - David Greenberg (1968-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-07)

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (2007) - John Ghazvinian (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Apr-07)

A Thousand Splendid Suns (2007) - Khaled Hosseini (03/04/1965-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Apr-07)

Christine Falls: A Novel (2006) - John Banville (12/08/1945-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 06-Apr-07)

On Humour (Thinking in Action) (2002) - Simon Critchley (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Mar-07)

H.M.S. Surprise (1973) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914-01/02/2000) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-07)

Post Captain (1972) - Patrick O'Brian (12/12/1914-01/02/2000)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-07)

Jar City : A Reykjavik Thriller (2005) - Arnaldur Indriadson (01/08/1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Feb-07)

The Shadow of the Wind (2001) - Carlos Ruiz Zafon (09/25/1964-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 20-Feb-07)

Death of a Red Heroine (2000) - Qiu Xiaolong (1953-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Feb-07)

The Physics of the Buffyverse (2006) - Jennifer Ouellette (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-07)

The Match: the day the game of golf changed forever (2007) - Mark Frost (11/25/1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 08-Feb-07)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear (2006) - Frank Luntz (02/23/1962-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Feb-07)

The Watchman: A Joe Pike Novel (2007) - Robert Crais (1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-07)

What Terrorists Want: Understanding the Enemy, Containing the Threat (2006) - Louise Richardson (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-07)

The Oxford Murders [Crimenes Imperceptibles] (2005) - Guillermo Martinez (07/29/1962-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-07)

The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (2006) - Lawrence George Wright (08/02/1947-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-07)

Falling Angel (1978) - William Hjortsberg (1941-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-07)

Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570 (2006) - Eamon Duffy (1947-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-07)

Sugartown : Amos Walker Mysteries (1984) - Loren D. Estleman (1952-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-07)

Candide (or Optimism) (1759) - François-Marie Arouet (11/21/1694-05/30/1778) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jan-07)

A History of the English-Speaking Peoples () - Winston S. Churchill (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Capitalism and Freedom () - Milton Friedman (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Crisis of the House Divided: An Interpretation of the Issues in the Lincoln-Douglas Debates () - Harry V. Jaffa (-) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Martyr's Day: Chronicle of a Small War (1993) - Michael Kelly (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II (1999) - George Weigel (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Sweet Soul Music: Rhythm and Blues and the Southern Dream of Freedom () - Peter Guralnick (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Against the Idols of the Age () - David Charles Stove (1927-1994) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Modern Times () - Paul Johnson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

The Russian Revolution () - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Case Closed () - Gerald Posner (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

The Crisis Years : Kennedy and Krushchev, 1960-1963 () - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams--The Early Years 1903-1940 (2001) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Trout Madness () - Robert Travers (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Lightning Bird () - Lyall Watson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Civil War () - Shelby Foote (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

False Spring () - Pat Jordan (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Perjury () - Allen Weinstein (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

Pitching in a Pinch () - Christy Mathewson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-06)

His Majesty's Dragon (Temeraire, Book 1) (2006) - Naomi Novik (1973-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Saddam: King of Terror (2002) - Con Coughlin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel (2006) - Steven Pressfield (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Night Watch: A Novel [Nochnoi Dozor] (1998) - Andrew Bromfeld (-) - Sergei Lukyanenko (04/11/1968-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965 (2006) - Mark Moyar (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-06)

Hyde & Shriek (Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers, #6) (2006) - Franklin W. Dixon (-) (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 29-Dec-06)

Caesar: Life of a Colossus (2006) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-06)

"Excuse Me, But I Was Next...": How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas (2006) - Peggy Post (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-06)

The Hidden Assassins (2006) - Robert Wilson (1957-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-06)

Death and Judgment (1995) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Nov-06)

Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion (1998) - Edward John Larson (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-06)

Let it Bleed (1996) - Ian Rankin (1960-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Oct-06)

The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation (2006) - David Kamp (-) (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 26-Oct-06)

The Daughters of Cain (1994) - Colin Dexter (1930-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

Confrontation at Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam (2006) - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro (09/15/1942-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

The Interpretation of Murder (2006) - Jed Rubenfeld (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 25-Oct-06)

Falls the Shadow (1988) - Sharon Kay Penman (08/13/1945-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Oct-06)

How to Spend $50 Billion to Make the World a Better Place (2006) - Bjorn Lomborg (01/06/1965-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-06)

Far from the Madding Gerund and Other Dispatches from Language Log (2006) - Geoffrey K. Pullum (-) - Mark Liberman (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-Oct-06)

The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis () - Leo Strauss (09/20/1899-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-06)

Eastern Approaches (1949) - Fitzroy Hew Royle MacLean (03/11/1911-06/15/1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Sep-06)

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005) - Bob Joseph Dole (07/22/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 22-Sep-06)

Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution (2006) - Brian Mann (1965-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Sep-06)

Your Turn, Mr. Moto (1935) - John P. Marquand (11/10/1893-7/16/1960)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-May-06)

Brownsville (2006) - Neil Kleid (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-May-06)

June 1941: Hitler and Stalin (2006) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 06-May-06)

The Devil's Halo (2005) - Chris Fox (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

The French Betrayal of America (2004) - Kenneth R. Timmerman (11/04/1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

The Only Game in Town : Baseball Stars of the 1930s and 1940s Talk About the Game They Loved (2006) - Fay Vincent (05/29/1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 04-May-06)

Golem: Legends of the Ghetto of Prague () - Chayim Bloch (06/26/1881-01/23/1973)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-May-06)

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) - George Lakoff (1941-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 24-Apr-06)

The Witchfinder: an Amos Walker Mystery (1998) - Loren D. Estleman (1952-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-06)

Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations (2001) - Daniel Philpott (1967-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-06)

The Seven Fat Years: And How To Do It Again (1992) - Robert L. Bartley (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-06)

Angels Don't Die: My Father's Gift of Faith (1995) - Patti Davis (10/21/1952-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Mar-06)

The Book of Trouble : A Romance (2006) - Ann Marlowe (1958-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-06)

Redefining Sovereignty (March 2006) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-06)

Seven Days to the Sea: an Epic Novel of The Exodus (2006) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-) (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 21-Mar-06)

The Underground Man (1971) - Ross MacDonald (12/13/1915-07/11/1983) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Mar-06)

Solomon vs. Lord (2005) - Paul Levine (-) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

Without Roots: The West, Relativism, Christianity, Islam (2006) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

The End of Time?: The Provocation of Talking about God (1999) - Joseph Aloysius Ratzinger (04/16/1927-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 06-Mar-06)

Death of an Outsider (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1988) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Manliness (2006) - Harvey C. Mansfield (1932-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Jesus : a Novel (2005) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-06)

Rebel-in-Chief: How George W. Bush Is Redefining the Conservative Movement and Transforming America (2006) - Fred Barnes (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Mar-06)

Captain Alatriste (1996) - Arturo Perez-Reverte (11/24/1951-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-06)

Death of a Gossip (Hamish Macbeth Mysteries) (1985) - M. C. Beaton (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 21-Feb-06)

Lost: Secret Identity (2006) - Cathy Hapka (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-06)

Prayers for the Assassin (2006) - Robert Ferrigno (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Feb-06)

Rising '44: The Battle for Warsaw (2004) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Jan-06)

The Modern Temper: A Study And A Confession (1929) - Joseph Wood Krutch (11/25/1893-05/22/1970)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Jan-06)

State of Fear (2004) - Michael Crichton (10/23/1942-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

Augustus (1973) - John Edward Williams (08/29/1922-03/03/1994)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

The Book of the Dun Cow (1978) - Walter M. Wangerin, Jr. (02/13/1944-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Jan-06)

Pursuit : An Inspector Espinosa Mystery (2003) - Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (1936-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-06)

The Wall: A Thriller (2006) - Jeff Long (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Jan-06)

The Breakdown of Cartesian Metaphysics (1987) - Richard A. Watson (02/23/1931-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Jan-06)

The Punic Wars (2000) - Adrian Goldsworthy (1969-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 16-Jan-06)

The Snow Goose (1941) - Paul Gallico (07/26/1897-07/15/1976)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 14-Jan-06)

'46, Chicago (2002) - Steve Monroe (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jan-06)

The Immediate Experience: Movies, Comics, Theatre and Other Aspects of Popular Culture (1962) - Robert Warshow (1917-1955)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 08-Jan-06)

The Case For Goliath: How America Acts As The World's Government in the Twenty-first Century (2005) - Michael Mandelbaum (1946-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-06)

The Wave (2006) - Walter Mosley (01/12/1952-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 07-Jan-06)

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance: and A Man Called Horse, Lost Sister, The Hanging Tree (2005) - Dorothy Marie Johnson (12/19/1905-11/11/1984)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-06)

Russian Conservatism and Its Critics: A Study in Political Culture (2005) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Jan-06)

Emperor: The Gates of Rome (2003) - Conn Iggulden (1971-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-06)

Blood and Thunder: A Nathan Heller Novel (1995) - Max Allan Collins (1948-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-05)

The Shield of Achilles (2002) - Philip Bobbitt (07/22/1948-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Dec-05)

The Old Fox Deceiv'd (1982) - Martha Grimes (1931-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 27-Dec-05)

The Shepherd (1975) - Frederick Forsyth (08/25/1938-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Dec-05)

The Agony of Christianity (1925) - Miguel de Unamuno (09/29/1864-12/31/1936)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

Tony And Me: A Story of Friendship (2005) - Jack Klugman (04/27/1922-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

Ideas Have Consequences (1948) - Richard M. Weaver (1910-1963) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Dec-05)

Europe : A History (1996) - Norman Davies (06/08/1939-) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Dec-05)

Friday the Rabbi Slept Late (1964) - Harry Kemelman (11/24/1908-12/15/1996)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Dec-05)

The Far Enemy : Why Jihad Went Global (2005) - Fawaz A. Gerges (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-05)

Twins : A Novel (2005) - Marcy Dermansky (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Dec-05)

Carl Melcher Goes to Vietnam (2004) - Paul Clayton (1948-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Dec-05)

The Hot House : Life Inside Leavenworth Prison (1992) - Pete Earley (09/05/1951-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Dec-05)

Bangkok 8 (2003) - John Burdett (1951-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 04-Dec-05)

The Ramayana, as told by Aubrey Menen (1954) - Aubrey Menen (04/22/1912-02/13/1989)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 03-Dec-05)

April 1865 : The Month that Saved America (2001) - Jay Winik (1957-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

Their Lives: The Women Targeted by the Clinton Machine (2005) - Candice E. Jackson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

The Last Kashmiri Rose (2001) - Barbara Cleverly (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-05)

Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842 (2003) - Nathaniel Philbrick (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Nov-05)

The Case For Democracy : The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (2004) - Natan Sharansky (01/20/1948-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Nov-05)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (2000) - Dai Sijie (03/02/1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Nov-05)

Lenin's Tomb : The Last Days of the Soviet Empire (1993) - David Remnick (1958-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-05)

Fields of Force: Fischer and Spassky at Reykjavik (1974) - George Steiner (04/23/1929-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Nov-05)

Arguing About War (2004) - Michael Walzer (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Nov-05)

The Girl With the Golden Eyes (1834) - Honore de Balzac (05/20/1799-08/18/1850)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-05)

Comes a Horseman (2005) - Robert Liparulo (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Nov-05)

Benedict XVI: The Man Who Was Ratzinger (2005) - Michael S. Rose (1969-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-05)

A Little History of the World (1936) - Ernst Hans Josef Gombrich (03/30/1909-11/03/2001)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 03-Nov-05)

The Goddess and the Bull : Catalhoyuk: An Archaeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilization (2005) - Michael Balter (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 02-Nov-05)

The Empty Beach (1983) - Peter Corris (1942-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Oct-05)

Knots and Crosses: An Inspector Rebus Novel (1987) - Ian Rankin (1960-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Oct-05)

Pocket Book of Patriotism (2005) - Jonathan Foreman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-05)

Victory in Tripoli : How America's War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (2005) - Joshua E. London (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 12-Oct-05)

Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem--and What We Should Do About It (2005) - Noah Feldman (1970-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Oct-05)

Why Men Never Remember and Women Never Forget (2005) - Marianne J. Legato (1935-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Oct-05)

The Pale Criminal (1990) - Philip Kerr (1956-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-05)

Off Center : The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy (2005) - Jacob S. Hacker (-) (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 30-Sep-05)

Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses (2005) - Theodore Dalrymple (1949-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 28-Sep-05)

The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth (1978) - Morgan Scott Peck (05/22/1936-09/25/2005)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 28-Sep-05)

The Shape of Water (1994) - Andrea Camilleri (1925-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-05)

Living It Up At National Review: A Memoir (2005) - Priscilla L. Buckley (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 27-Sep-05)

Faceless Killers (1991) - Henning Mankell (1948-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Sep-05)

A Great Deliverance: an Inspector Lynley Mystery (1988) - Susan Elizabeth George (02/26/1949-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Aug-05)

Treehouse Chronicles: One Man's Dream of Life Aloft (2005) - S. Peter Lewis (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-05)

Jannaway's Mutiny (2005) - Charles Gidley Wheeler (08/21/1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 23-Aug-05)

Secret Mission to Bangkok (1960) - Francis van Wyck Mason (11/11/1901-08/28/1978)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

The Black Dudley Murder (1929) - Margery Allingham (05/20/1904-06/30/1966)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

Satchmo: The Genius of Louis Armstrong (1988) - Gary Giddins (03/21/1948-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 20-Aug-05)

Sharpe's Rifles: Richard Sharpe and the French Invasion of Galicia, January 1809 (1998) - Bernard Cornwell (1944-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-05)

The Golden Game: The Story of California Baseball (2004) - Kevin Nelson (1953-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Aug-05)

Is For Good Men To Do Nothing (2004) - Chris Verrill (1964-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-05)

Life of Johnson (1791) - James Boswell (10/29/1740-05/19/1795)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-05)

Notes from Underground (1864) - Fyodor Dostoevsky (11/11/1821-02/09/1881)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Jul-05)

Turtle Diary (1975) - Russell Conwell Hoban (02/04/1925-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 26-Jul-05)

The Raphael Affair (1992) - Iain Pears (1955-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Jul-05)

The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness (2005) - Jack El-Hai (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 24-Jul-05)

The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag (2000) - Kang Chol-Hwan (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 22-Jul-05)

What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2004) - Thomas Frank (1965-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-05)

Loving Soren (2005) - Caroline Coleman O'Neill (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 21-Jul-05)

Edges: O Israel O Palestine (2005) - Leora Skolkin-Smith (1952-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 20-Jul-05)

Dissolution (2004) - C. J. Sansom (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-05)

Stained Glass: A Blackford Oakes Novel (1978) - William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Jul-05)

Fat Ollie's Book : A Novel of the 87th Precinct (2002) - Ed McBain (10/15/1926-07/06/2005)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-05)

Maigret in Montmartre (1959) - Georges Simenon (02/13/1903-09/04/1989)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jul-05)

Mixed Nuts: America's Love Affair with Comedy Teams from Burns and Allen to Belushi and Aykroyd (2004) - Lawrence J. Epstein (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-05)

Strike Three, You're Dead (1984) - Richard Dean Rosen (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Jul-05)

Foolhardy Masonry (June 2005) - Orrin Corson Judd (12/02/1961-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-05)

The Conquest of the United States (1949) - Archibald MacLeish (05/07/1892-04/20/1982)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 25-Jun-05)

Democracy and Populism : Fear and Hatred (2005) - John Lukacs (01/31/1924-)  (Grade:D) (Reviewed: 25-Jun-05)

Dr. Sam Johnson: Detector (1946) - Lillian de la Torre (03/15/1902-1993)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-05)

Epitaph for a Spy (1952) - Eric Ambler (06/28/1909-10/22/1998)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 24-Jun-05)

Another November (1986) - Roger Grenier (1919-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 23-Jun-05)

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life (2005) - Steve Leveen (1954-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Jun-05)

The New New Left : How American Politics Works Today (2005) - Steven Malanga (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 20-Jun-05)

Boswell's Presumptous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson (2001) - Adam Sisman (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 16-Jun-05)

The Last King of Scotland (1998) - Giles Foden (1967-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jun-05)

Benedict Arnold: A Drama of the American Revolution in Five Acts (2005) - Robert Zubrin (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

Fredericksburg : Squandered Courage and Uncertain Allegiance (2004) - Wyatt Kingseed (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

The Lords of Navarre : A Basque Family Saga (2004) - José Maria Lacambra-Loizu (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 13-Jun-05)

How Democratic Is the American Constitution? (2001) - Robert Alan Dahl (1915-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 10-Jun-05)

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2000) - Alan Moore (-11/18/1953)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-Jun-05)

The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005) - John Ehrman (1959-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-May-05)

Saving Graces: Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist (1991) - Roger B. Swain (02/05/1949-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-May-05)

Wall of Glass : A Joshua Croft Mystery (1987) - Walter Satterthwait (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-May-05)

No god but God : The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005) - Reza Aslan (1972-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-May-05)

Goodey's Last Stand (1975) - Charles Alverson (10/13/1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 05-May-05)

With Fire and Sword (1883) - Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 02-May-05)

The Battle of Salamis : The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization (2004) - Barry Strauss (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Apr-05)

Freak (1983) - Michael Collins (1924-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 18-Apr-05)

Freakonomics : A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (2005) - Stephen J. Dubner (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 14-Apr-05)

South Park Conservatives : The Revolt Against Liberal Media Bias (2005) - Brian C. Anderson (1961-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Apr-05)

The Children of Men (1992) - P.D. James (08/03/1920-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-05)

Neoconomy: George Bush's Revolutionary Gamble with America's Future (2004) - Daniel Altman (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 18-Mar-05)

The Inn at the Edge of the World (1990) - Alice Thomas Ellis (09//09/1932-03/08/2005)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 15-Mar-05)

The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945 (2002) - Michael R. Beschloss (11/30/1955-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 03-Mar-05)

Flying Blind: How Political Correctness Continues to Compromise Airline Safety Post 9/11 (2004) - Michael A. Smerconish (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 28-Feb-05)

The One True Platonic Heaven: A Scientific Fiction of the Limits of Knowledge (2003) - John L. Casti (1943-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

Rosa (2005) - Jonathan Rabb (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

River Season (There's a River Down in Texas) (2003) - Jim Black (1953-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 23-Feb-05)

Mozart: A Novel (2004) - Robert Howse (1958-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 31-Jan-05)

Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth (2002) - Judith Hooper (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Jan-05)

A Third Testament (1976) - Malcolm Muggeridge (03/24/1903-11/14/1990)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Ada Blackjack : A True Story of Survival in the Arctic (2003) - Jennifer Niven (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth-Century Spain (1995) - Benzion Netanyahu (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

The Concept of the Political (1927) - Carl Schmitt (07/11/1888-04/07/1985)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

On My Philosophy () - Karl Jaspers (02/23/1883-02/26/1969)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime (2002) - Eliot A. Cohen (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost (1967) - Stanley Eugene Fish (1938-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-04)

The Last Alchemist : Count Cagliostro, Master of Magic in the Age of Reason () - Iain McCalman (1947-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

The Dog of the South (1979) - Charles Portis (1933-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History) (2004) - David Hackett Fischer (1935-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

Eagle In The Snow : A Novel of General Maximus and Rome's Last Stand (1970) - Wallace Breem (05/13/1926-1990)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Dec-04)

The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great (2004) - Steven Pressfield (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 18-Dec-04)

Remembrance of Things Past : Combray (1998) - Stephane Heuet (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-04)

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution (2002) - Howard Rheingold (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 01-Dec-04)

Truth and Fiction in the Da Vinci Code: A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (2004) - Bart D. Ehrman (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-04)

Evolution : The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Modern Library Chronicles) (2004) - Edward John Larson (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Nov-04)

The Librarian (2004) - Larry Beinhart (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 19-Nov-04)

The New Dealers' War: FDR and the War Within World War II (2001) - Thomas Fleming (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 11-Nov-04)

Republicanism (1999) - Maurizio Viroli (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 11-Nov-04)

A Glass Half Full (2002) - Felix Dennis (1947-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 31-Oct-04)

Football Physics: The Science of the Game (2004) - Timothy James Gay (03/23/1953-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 21-Oct-04)

Terror and Liberalism (2003) - Paul Berman (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-04)

The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization () - Patrick J. Buchanan (1938-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

Gulag: A History (2003) - Anne Applebaum (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

The Barbarian Conversion: From Paganism to Christianity (1997) - Richard Fletcher (03/28/1944-02/28/2005)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-04)

Allies: The U.S., Britain, and Europe, and the War in Iraq (2003) - William Shawcross (05/28/1946-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Aug-04)

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (2004) - Gordon S. Wood (1933-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Jul-04)

Deflation: What Happens When Prices Fall (2004) - Chris Farrell (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-04)

Sandman: a Jean Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler Investigation (1996) - J. [Joseph] Robert Janes (1935-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 19-Jul-04)

The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (1978) - Ryszard Kapuscinski (03/04/1932-01/23/2007)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 18-Jul-04)

The Battle of Britain: The Myth and the Reality (2000) - Richard J. Overy (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-04)

Death of a Nationalist (2002) - Rebecca Pawel (1977-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 12-Jul-04)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East (2003) - Martine Rothblatt (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-04)

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) (1958) - Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (12/23/1896-07/23/1957)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 11-Jul-04)

A Close Run Thing : A Novel of Wellington's Army of 1815 (1999) - Allan Mallinson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-04)

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (1974) - Robert A. Caro (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 10-Jul-04)

The Moon of Skulls (1930) - Robert Ervin Howard (01/22/1906-06/11/1936) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-04)

A Noble Radiance (1998) - Donna Leon (02/28/1942-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Jul-04)

The Anatomy of Fascism (2004) - Robert O. Paxton (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 06-Jul-04)

Missing Justice : A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (2004) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 30-Jun-04)

Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid (2003) - Eve Adler (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-04)

Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry (2004) - Harvey Frommer (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Jun-04)

Fight Club (1996) - Chuck Palahniuk (02/21/1962-)  (Grade:F) (Reviewed: 31-May-04)

The Holy Land (2003) - Robert Zubrin (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 23-May-04)

Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War (2003) - Walter J. Boyne (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-May-04)

GAME: MooT (1998) - Jon Steeves (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

Rothstein: The Life, Times and Murder of the Criminal Genius who Fixed the 1919 World Series (2003) - David Pietrusza (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

In the Company of Soldiers : A Chronicle of Combat (2004) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 10-May-04)

Hadrian's Wall (2004) - William Dietrich (09/29/1951-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 09-May-04)

The Gilded Chamber: A Tale of Queen Esther (2004) - Rebecca Kohn (October 1958-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 20-Apr-04)

Anti-Americanism (2003) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Apr-04)

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001) - Theodore Dalrymple (1949-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Apr-04)

Civilization and Its Enemies : The Next Stage of History (2004) - Lee Harris (-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 27-Mar-04)

Trousered Apes: Sick Literature in a Sick Society (1971) - Duncan Williams (-1985)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 05-Mar-04)

Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun (1971) - Jean-Francois Revel (1924-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Feb-04)

Physics and Politics: or Thoughts on the Application of the Principles of "Natural Selection" and "Inheritance" to Political Society (1863) - Walter Bagehot (02/03/1826-03/24/1877)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 10-Feb-04)

Knight of the Cross: A Story of the Crusades (1951) - Frederick L. Coe (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 26-Jan-04)

Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger (2003) - Richard Pipes (07/11/1923-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 19-Jan-04)

The New Brain (2003) - Richard M. Restak (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 15-Jan-04)

Ghost Image (2002) - Joshua Gilder (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 11-Jan-04)

The Last Word (1997) - Thomas Nagel (-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 09-Jan-04)

Starship Troopers (1959) - Robert A. Heinlein (07/07/1907-1988)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 31-Dec-03)

One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought () - Ernst Mayr (07/05/1904-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 13-Dec-03)

A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East (1989) - David Fromkin (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 12-Dec-03)

A Case of Conscience (1958) - James Blish (1921-1975)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 06-Dec-03)

Brain Storm (1998) - Richard Dooling (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Dec-03)

Albert Camus & Jean Grenier: Correspondence 1932-1960 (1981) - Albert Camus (1913-1960)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 27-Nov-03)

In, But Not Of : A Guide to Christian Ambition (2003) - Hugh Hewitt (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Nov-03)

Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series (2003) - Louis P. Masur (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 25-Nov-03)

Kiddle-Y-Winks (2003) - Dorothy Corson Judd (09/04/1938-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 18-Nov-03)

The Prosecutors: A Year in the Life of a District Attorney's Office (2003) - Gary Delsohn (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 17-Nov-03)

The Middle of the Night (2003) - Daniel Stolar (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 12-Nov-03)

A Question of Honor: The Kosciuszko Squadron: Forgotten Heroes of World War II (2003) - Stanley Cloud (-) - Lynne Olson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 09-Nov-03)

If It Ain't Got That Swing: The Rebirth of Grown-Up Culture (2000) - Mark Gauvreau Judge (-)  (Grade:C+) (Reviewed: 09-Nov-03)

A National Party No More: The Conscience of a Conservative Democrat (2003) - Zell Miller (02/24/1932-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 02-Nov-03)

The Other Side of Russia: A Slice of Life in Siberia and the Russian Far East (2003) - Sharon Hudgins (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 15-Oct-03)

Motherless Brooklyn (1999) - Jonathan Lethem (1964-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 14-Oct-03)

Forced Exit: The Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder (1999) - Wesley J. Smith (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 13-Oct-03)

An Army at Dawn: The War in North Africa, 1942-1943 (2002) - Rick Atkinson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 11-Oct-03)

The Samurai (1980) - Shusaku Endo (1923-1996)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Oct-03)

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (2003) - Fareed Zakaria (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 29-Sep-03)

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (2003) - Erik Larson (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 26-Sep-03)

Faith of the Fatherless: The Psychology of Atheism (1999) - Paul C. Vitz (1935-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 19-Sep-03)

Solaris (1961) - Stanislaw Lem (1921-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-03)

Jonathan Edwards: A Life (2003) - George M. Marsden (-) (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 09-Sep-03)

Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader () - John Jay Chapman (03/02/1862-11/04/1933) (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-03)

And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) - Randy Martin Shilts (08/08/1951-02/17/1994)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Sep-03)

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--On Earth and Beyond () - Martin J. Rees (06/23/1942-)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 25-Aug-03)

Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History (2003) - James A. Morone (-)  (Grade:C-) (Reviewed: 25-Aug-03)

The Two Faces of Liberalism (2000) - John Gray (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 21-Aug-03)

What We Can't Not Know: A Guide (2003) - J. Budziszewski (1952-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 17-Aug-03)

A Love Supreme: The Story of John Coltrane's Signature Album (2002) - Ashley Kahn (-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 07-Aug-03)

Vietnam: The Necessary War: Grand Strategy, Domestic Politics, and the American War for Indochina () - Michael Lind (-)  (Grade:C) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

Kaddish (1998) - Leon Wieseltier (1952-)  (Grade:B+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe (1993) - Jamie James (-)  (Grade:A+) (Reviewed: 01-Aug-03)

Willmoore Kendall: Maverick of American Conservatives (2002) - John A. Murley (-)  (Grade:A) (Reviewed: 30-Jul-03)

The Minority Report (1954) - Phillip K. Dick (1929-1982)  (Grade:B) (Reviewed: 28-Jul-03)

The Old Religion in the New World: The History of North American Christianity (2001) - Mark A. Noll (1946-)  (Grade:A-) (Reviewed: 28-Jul-03)

Judgment Calls (2003) - Alafair S. Burke (-)  (Grade:B-) (Reviewed: 17-Jul-03)

The Destructors (1954) - Graham Greene (1904-1991)  (G