The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival By Ron DeSantis (Broadside Books, 288 pages, $35) While courage may seem a fading virtue in America’s political discourse, at least one man has taken it to the next level:…
Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars From the Tiber to the Potomac By Steven D. Smith (Eerdmans, 386 pages, $29.99) Paganism is the answer. Not to life or well-being or faith or — make no mistake — a…
Decades of Decadence: How Our Spoiled Elites Blew America’s Inheritance of Liberty, Security, and Prosperity By Marco Rubio (Broadside Books, 223 pages, $32) In 2010, a 39-year-old Marco Rubio (he looked even younger) scored a major electoral upset, unhorsing Florida’s…
Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète By Bérengère Bonte (L’Archipel, 240 pages, $28) There’s no better promotional vehicle than controversy and scandal. Given this, journalist Bérengère Bonte’s timely provocative book about France’s current prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, la Secrète (Élisabeth Borne, the…
The Trial of the Century By Gregg Jarrett with Don Yaeger (Threshold Editions, 304 pages, $30) The more things change, the more they stay the same. Americans today live in a country where there are constant news stories of the…
The Madman in the White House: Sigmund Freud, Ambassador Bullitt, and the Lost Psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson Patrick Weil (Harvard University Press, 400 pages, $35) William Bullitt was one of the most interesting Americans of the 20th century. He turns…
To the End of the Earth: The US Army and the Downfall of Japan, 1945 John C. McManus (Dutton Caliber, 448 pages, $35) The best historians use hindsight to place events in a clearer perspective than heretofore understood. Military historian…
Serving Herself: The Life and Times of Althea Gibson By Ashley Brown (Oxford University Press, 595 pages, $29.95) Iga Świątek, WTA top-ranked tennis player, and Aryna Sabalenka, right behind her at No. 2. battled it out for the prize at…
Mary Ball Washington: The Untold Story of George Washington’s Mother By Craig Shirley (Harper, 368 pages, $30) “My great age, and the disease which is fast approaching my vitals, warn me that I shall not be long in this world….
We Need to Talk About Inflation: 14 Urgent Lessons from the Last 2,000 Years By Stephen D. King (Yale University Press, 230 pages, $28) The current inflation rate in the USA is 5 percent, significantly down from its June 2022…