FOR FURTHER READING

A few titles you might miss

Every once in a while it’s good to review what I’ve been reading for everyone else. Some may interest you, some not.

First up is a new book—-I think he’d say his last—-from my co-author of Patriot’s History of the United States, Michel Allen, whose Mississippi River Valley: The Course of American Civilization is free from Iowa State University Press here. Mike covers the MRV from the first explorers and legendary characters such as Daniel Boone, Mike Fink, and Davy Crockett up to modern times. Political influences such as Phyllish Schlafley and Harry Truman take their place with an entire chapter on the MRV in popular film, musicals, and literature. And Mike definitely knows his stuff here.

Next there is a new book from James Best. His 2010 Tempest at Dawn is the best fictional account of the Constitutional Convention you’ll ever find. Best takes you into the taverns and backrooms as deals to form a nation were hashed out. Now he has a book on Lincoln and the Civil War, Maelstrom. Best follows Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis, mirror opposites, as they deal with the challenges of running a wartime government.

Citizen Jane by Christopher Anderson pulls no punches while reviewing the life of Jane Fonda. Although Anderson makes no apologies for Fonda, his biography certainly explains why she came to be who she was, largely because of a remote father (Henry Fonda) whom she could never please. Yet that was the driving factor in almost every part of her life.

Anything by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child is great, particularly their “Pendergast” novels about the quirky FBI agent Aloysius Pendergast. But as Pendergast’s cases unfolded, the character soon developed a number of supporting characters interesting enough in their own right. Bad Lands, featuring one of their first characters, archaeologist Nora Kelly, follows a murder trail into the New Mexico mountains. The Pendergast series, as good as it was, seemed to always be searching for the origin story and yet unable to tell it in the course of other plot lines. Preston and Child remedied that with their latest Pendergast novel, Pendergast: The Beginning. Yet even then the reader was left to ask where Agent Pendergast got his intuition, his deep insight, and his exceptional detective skills.

For non-fiction of the most timely and important variety, see Seth Keshel’s new book, The American War on Election Corruption. Few people understand the nuts and bolts of American election processes—-and particularly how those were abused by DemoKKKrats to cheat their way to a presidential “victory” in 2020 and to steal up to four seats in the Senate in 2024. He knows exactly how to defeat the fraud, and provides a history showing that such vile shenanigans are nothing new.

Finally, appearing in about two weeks, is what I think is my own final book. (No other topic even remotely interests me now, and the market for books sales has done nothing but go down). Still, I wanted to write a history of the United States from Plymouth to present as told through the lives of people. I settled on 94 men and women, from William Bradford to Patrick Henry, fromo Davy Crockett to Nat Turner and Frederick Douglass, from Laura Ingalls Wilder to Ulysses Grant, from Margaret Sanger to Aimee Semple McPherson, from John Wayne to Berry Gordy, Jr., and from Billy Joel to Charlie Kirk. The associations and connections among these Americans is surprising and in a way, comforting.

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Larry Schweikart (@CyberneticsLS on Truth, @LarrySchweikart on X)

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