Dr. Ben Carson has been celebrated in a variety of arenas. He is the former secretary of housing and urban development, a 2016 Republican presidential candidate, and the former director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins. He is also a best-selling author having penned several books before this one. In 2008, under President George W….
Book Review: ‘Created Equal: The Painful Past, Confusing Present, and Hopeful Future of Race in America’
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Oct. 14–Oct. 20
This week, we feature a sobering assortment: potent novels on how power corrupts, moving poetry of World War I, and a history of the winter at Valley Forge. Fiction When Power Corrupts ‘All the King’s Men’ By Robert Penn Warren “All the King’s Men” is one of the most potent stories of how power can…
Book Recommender: Examining How Religion Has Buoyed America Throughout Its History
“American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation” was written by a former magazine and book editor. However, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham is best known as a historian, having written more than a dozen history books as well as served as a trustee for such institutions as the Smithsonian National…
‘the Last of the Mohicans’ or the First of America’s Branded Heroes? Exploring How the Archetype Has Endured in American Literature and Cinema
October 14, 2022
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American EssenceArts & CulturebooksBrightfrontierJames Fenimore CooperLast of the MohicansNathaniel Bumppo
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“The Last of the Mohicans” is often dismissed as a boring old novel full of dense descriptions, epitomizing Mark Twain’s definition of a “classic” as “something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” Twain himself did not think much of its author, James Fenimore Cooper, whose “literary offenses” he lampooned in…
Book Review: ‘Crécy: Battle of Five Kings’: Turning Centuries of Medieval Military History on Its Head
Is it possible for nearly 700 hundred years of historical narrative to be wrong? Michael Livingston has made a strong case that much of what we know about the 1346 Battle of Crécy, the battle that started the Hundred Years’ War between England and France, is wrong. In his new book, “Crécy: Battle of Five…
A Master’s Touch: The Literary Legacy of Somerset Maugham
Winston Churchill and Somerset Maugham were born in the same year, 1874, and both died in 1965. Each had one foot in the Victorian age and the other in the era of automobiles, flight, motion pictures, and the Cold War. Despite their travels and cosmopolitan backgrounds, both remained distinctly English in their demeanor and speech….
What Many Men Desire: Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Short Story, ‘The Golden Touch’
For centuries, men have desired riches, and, in particular, gold. Many have done everything possible to obtain this precious metal. Whatever motivates them, this desire has caused wars, feuds, death, and betrayals. In his short story, “The Golden Touch,” Nathaniel Hawthorne contemplates the dangers of gold and the consequences of an unquenchable desire for it…
Book Review: ‘Relative Distance: A Memoir’: A Message of Hope
October 8, 2022
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"Relative Distance: A Memoir"Arts & CulturebooksBrightChildhelp.orgDavid PruittMental Health Awareness Week
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In 1990, Mental Health Awareness Week was established by the U.S. Congress in recognition of efforts by the National Alliance on Mental Illness to educate and increase awareness about mental illness. It takes place every year during the first full week of October. This month is a fitting time to read first-time author David Pruitt’s…
Book Review: ‘Precipice’
Nick Deiuliis, the president and CEO of the publicly traded CNX Resources and a leading voice in the energy industry, has certainly done his homework. In his book, “Precipice,” the author lays out so many points on economic topics, including energy issues, that it’s difficult to call his book title hyperbolic. He tackles issues propagated…
Epoch Booklist: Recommended Reading for Oct. 7–Oct. 13
This week, we feature Laura Ingalls Wilder’s most harrowing volume and a feel-good history of two American emblems: baseball and presidents. Fiction A Turn-of-the-Century Western ‘So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel’ By Leif Enger It’s 1915 and Monte Becket, a father, husband, and writer, is looking for adventure—or at least something to write about….
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