Book Reviews
A timely reminder of America’s Enlightenment origins
By Charles Bogle, August 31, 2006
Washington’s Crossing, by David Hackett Fischer, 543 pages, Oxford University Press, 2004, $17.95
John Updike’s Terrorist
By David Walsh, August 25, 2006
John Updike, Terrorist, New York, Alfred A. Knopf 2006, 310 pp.
William Jennings Bryan and the rise and decline of the Progressive Era
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin
By Shannon Jones, August 11, 2006
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin (Alfred A Knopf, New York, 2006), 400 pages
Propaganda in the guise of a novel
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon, Australia, Hodder 2005, 351pp.
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras and Ismet Redzovic, June 26, 2006
Scott Simon is an American journalist who has covered 10 wars from El Salvador to Iraq, and hosts US National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Saturday.” He became a Quaker and a paci...
Letters on “Hegel, Marx, Engels and the Origins of Marxism”
May 9, 2006
The following is a selection of letters sent to the World Socialist Web Site on “Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the origins of Marxism”, a review of Tom Rockmore’s book Marx after Marxism:...
Some insights into American life as it is: Doctorow’s Sweet Land Stories
By Sandy English, May 9, 2006
E.L. Doctorow, Sweet Land Stories, New York, Random House 2004, 147 pp.
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North, May 3, 2006
The following is second of a two-part series. The first part can be read here.
Hegel, Marx, Engels, and the Origins of Marxism
A review of Marx After Marxism: The Philosophy of Karl Marx by Tom Rockmore
By David North, May 2, 2006
The following is the first of a two-part series. The second part will be posted tomorrow.
Fall, but no decline
The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History
By Ann Talbot, April 18, 2006
Peter Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire: A New History, (London: Macmillan, 2005)
A closer look at Kierkegaard
By Tom Carter, April 17, 2006
Søren Kierkegaard: A Biography, by Joachim Garff, translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse. 867 pages, Princeton University Press, $35
Pioneering modernist exhibition: a cultural turning point for 1930s Australia
Degenerates and Perverts: The 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art, by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, Miegunyah Press
By John Christian and Richard Phillips, March 28, 2006
Degenerates and Perverts, a richly illustrated 306-page book by Eileen Chanin and Steven Miller, examines the 1939 Herald Exhibition of French and British Contemporary Art and its impact on Australian...
Australia’s secret or not-so-secret past
The Secret River, by Kate Grenville, Text Publishing, 2005
By Mary Beadnell, March 7, 2006
Australian author Kate Grenville’s recently published historical novel, The Secret River, is a serious work and one that reveals some important truths about Australia’s past.
