The Uprising
By David Sirota
reviewed by Peter G. Pollak
posted 6/28/08
Instruction to Delivery
By Michael Barber
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 3/29/08
Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power
By Marcus Mabry
reviewed by Shakesha Coleman
posted 8/9/07
Days of Valor
By Robert L. Tonsetic
reviewed by Edward Fennell
posted 4/13/07
The End of Faith
By Sam Harris
and
Imperial Hubris
by Michael Scheuer
reviewed by Alan Knight
posted 1/4/07
The Liberal Conscience
By Lucas Swaine
reviewed by Hannah E. Meyers
posted 1/13/07
Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream
By Howard Humes
reviewed by Hyman Kuritz
posted 12/13/06
Triumph Forsaken: The Vietnam War, 1954-1965
By Mark Mayer
reviewed by Alan Knight
posted 11/14/06
The End of Iraq: How American Incompetence Created a War without End
By Peter W. Galbraith
reviewed by Alan Knight
posted 10/31/06
What Would the Founders Do?
By Richard Brookhiser
and
American Gospel; God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
By John Meacham
reviewed by Peter G. Pollak
posted 9/4/06
Clemente: The Passion and Grace of Baseball's Last Hero
By David Marannis
reviewed by Elliott A. Shaw, Jr.
posted 8/7/06
The Coming Generational Storm: What you need to know about America's Economic Future
By Lawrence J. Kotlikoff and Scott Burns
reviewed by Alan Knight
posted 6/19/06
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
By Doris Kearns Goodwin
reviewed by Kevin P. Quinn, Esq.
posted 5/9/06
The Politics of Decline, A Chronicle of New York's Descent and What You Can Do To Save Your State
By Jay Gallagher
and
Creating a Prosperous New York State, Making Elected Officials Accountable for New York State's Performance Relative to Other States
By Mark W. Bitz
reviewed by Peter G. Pollak
posted 3/31/06
The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global
By Fawaz A. Gerges
reviewed by Shakesha Coleman
posted 1/15/06
Learning to Govern: My Life in New York Politics, From Hell Gate to City Hall
By Peter F. Vallone
reviewed by Robert S. Altman
posted 12/07/05
Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York and the Genius of American Life
By Fred Siegel
reviewed by Robert Ward
posted 10/03/05
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 09/15/05
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963
By Robert Dallek
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 05/16/05
His Excellency: George Washington
By Joseph Ellis
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 02/22/05
I Rose Like A Rocket: The Political Education of Theodore Roosevelt
By Paul Grondahl
reviewed by Robert B. Ward
posted 12/15/04
Washington's Crossing
By David Hackett Fischer
reviewed by Peter Slocum
posted 08/26/04
Right Wing Justice: The Conservative Campaign to Take Over the Courts
By Herman Schwartz
reviewed by Scott Christianson
posted 07/21/04
Alexander Hamilton
By Ron Chernow
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 06/25/04
Nader: Crusader,Spoiler, Icon
By Justin Martin
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 05/12/04
A Time For Reflection: An Autobiography
By William E. Simon with John M. Caher
reviewed by Robert Ward
posted 04/14/04
The Soft Cage:
Surveillance in America, From Slave Passes to the War on Terror
by Christian Parenti
reviewed by Scott Christianson
posted 01/14/04
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
by Walter Isaacson
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 12/29/03
The Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom, The Civil War Era
by James M. McPherson
reviewed by Peter Slocum
posted 11/24/03
The Equity Culture: The Story of the Global Stock Market
by B. Mark Smith
reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 10/27/03
Autumn Glory: Baseball's First World Series
by Louis P. Masur
reviewed by Elliott A. Shaw, Jr.
posted 10/17/03
The Burden of Being a "Light Unto The Nations"
by David Grossman
reviewed by Dr. Ed Beck
posted 09/29/03
Master of the Senate
by Robert Caro
reviewed by Kevin P. Quinn
posted 09/08/03
After Jihad, America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy
by Noah Feldman
reviewed by Kevin P. Quinn
posted 06/18/2003
Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World
by Eric Foner
book reviewed by Peter G. Pollak
posted 06/09/2003
The Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine
by Fay Vincent
book reviewed by Elliott A. Shaw, Jr.
posted 05/22/2003
"Hustlers, Heroes & Hooligans"
by Dan Lynch
book reviewed by Marci Blake
posted 04/22/2003
20:21 VISION. Twentieth-Century Lessons for the Twenty-first Century
by Bill Emmott
book reviewed by Peter Slocum
posted 04/14/2003
New York State Government: What it does and How it works
by Robert B. Ward
book reviewed by Kevin Quinn, a principal with the law firm of Hinman Straub P.C.
posted 03/26/2003
Theodore Rex
by Edmund Morris
book reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 03/12/2003
The Rehnquist Court: Judicial Activism on the Right
by Herman Schwartz
book reviewed by Scott Christianson
posted 01/14/2003
John Adams
by David McCullough
book reviewed by Kevin Quinn
posted 01/14/2003
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species
by Scott Weidensaul
book reviewed by Shakesha Coleman
posted 11/25/2002
Crescent & Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds
by Stephen Kinzer
book reviewed by William Rainbolt
posted 10/30/2002
Defying Hitler, A Memoir
by Sebastian Haffner
Requiem for a German Past
by Jurgen Herbst
books reviewed by Peter G. Pollak
posted 10/04/2002
Alfred E. Smith, The Happy Warrior
by Christopher M. Finan
book reviewed by Peter Slocum, Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society, Eastern Division
posted 9/18/2002
Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life
by Carlo D'este
book reviewed by Cecilia Ferradino
posted 8/07/2002
BEFORE THE STORM: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus
by Rick Perlstein
book reviewed by Mike Schell, Chair of Democratic Rural Conference
posted 7/24/2002
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
by Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Professor of Economics, Loyola College, Maryland
book reviewed by Alan Knight, Communications Manager, New York Farm Bureau
posted 6/24/2002
West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Reflects on Islam and the West
by Tamim Ansary
book reviewed by David-Iman Adler
posted 5/23/2002
Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution
by Francis Fukuyama
book reviewed by Alan Knight
posted 5/15/2002
The News About the News: American Journalism in Peril
by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser
book reviewed by Dan Lynch
posted 5/10/2002
Running with the Machine - A journalist's eye opening plunge into politics
by Dan Lynch
book reviewed by Joulia Dib
posted 4/30/2002
Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
by Atul Gawande
book reviewed by Shakesha Coleman
posted 4/12/2002
Rules for Corporate Warriors: How to Fight and Survive Attack Group Shakedowns
by Nick Nichols
book reviewed by Katherine Tynberg
posted 4/03/2002
Media Unlimited
by Todd Gitlin
book reviewed by Claudio Campuzano
posted 3/20/2002
Roscoe
by William Kennedy
book reviewed by David P. Brown
posted 2/12/2002
Churchill: A Biography
by Roy Jenkins
book reviewed by Edward J. Fennell
posted 2/12/2002
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