Book Reviews
Bolsheviks in Power - Professor Alexander Rabinowitch’s important study of the first year of soviet power
By Frederick Choate and David North, November 9, 2007
The following review is also available as a pdf.
World War Z: Monsters of this society’s own making
By Christie Schaefer, October 25, 2007
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War, by Max Brooks, Three Rivers Press (CA), $14.95
Recycling Stalinist lies about the Spanish Civil War
By Ann Talbot, October 6, 2007
El Escudo de la Republica by Angel Viñas (Barcelona: Critica, 2007)
After the storm: James Lee Burke answers Katrina’s wrath with his own
By Robert Maxwell, September 20, 2007
James Lee Burke, The Tin Roof Blowdown, Simon & Schuster and Jesus Out to Sea, Simon & Schuster
A fighter for Marxism in America
James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928, by Bryan D. Palmer. University of Illinois Press, 2007, 542 pp.
By Fred Mazelis and Tom Mackaman, September 18, 2007
The publication of a biography of James P. Cannon, one of the leading figures of early American Communism and the founder, in 1928, of the American Trotskyist movement, is a major event.
Germany: “Human Rights in Times of Terror” by Rolf Gössner
By Elisabeth Zimmermann, August 20, 2007
Rolf Gössner, Menschenrechte in Zeiten des Terrors—Kollateralschäden an der “Heimatfront”(Human Rights in Times of Terror—Collateral Damage on the “Home Front”), ...
Two novels about America’s future: writers need a new perspective
By Sandy English, August 1, 2007
The Road by Cormac McCarthy, New York: Random House, 2006, 287 pp. The Pesthouse by Jim Crace, New York: Doubleday, 2007, 255 pp.
John Henry: From folk legend to Communist superhero
By Jonathan Keane, May 15, 2007
Scott Reynolds Nelson, Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry: The Untold Story of an American Legend, New York, Oxford University Press 2006, 214 pp.
The Unknown Terrorist: A novel about the “war on terror”
By Gabriela Zabala-Notaras and Ismet Redzovic, May 8, 2007
Richard Flanagan, The Unknown Terrorist, Sydney, Picador 2006, 325 pp.
A lesson from history regarding Mr. Blair
Edward Pearce’s The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole
By Ann Talbot, March 20, 2007
Edward Pearce The Great Man, Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain’s First Prime Minister (London: Jonathan Cape, 2007) 352 pp.
Dennett’s dangerous idea
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, by Daniel Dennett, Viking Adult, 2006, 464 pages, $26
By James Brookfield, November 6, 2006
American philosopher Daniel Dennett’s latest book, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, was attacked from the right last February in the pages of the New York Times Book Review ...
History of an early American uprising
By Jonathan Keane, October 5, 2006
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America’s Newfound Sovereignty, by William Hogeland, Scribner, 2006, 302 pages
