Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Infidel
(*****)
Robert Kagan: Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order
Required reading. A brilliant essay on the differences between European and American views of the world and why our interests diverge. (*****)
John H. Fund: Stealing Elections: How Voter Fraud Threatens Our Democracy
A very important book. It lays bare just how creaky and open to abuse our elections system is, and why reforms are needed now. (*****)
Alexander Vassiliev: The Haunted Wood : Soviet Espionage in America - -The Stalin Era
An interesting if somewhat dry account of Soviet espionage in the US during the 1930s and 1940s. It's amazing how thoroughly penetrated our government was. (***)
Donald Kagan: The Peloponnesian War
Just started this one. I'll review it when I'm done.
Adrian Goldsworthy: The Punic Wars
An excellent survey of the amazing story of the three wars between Rome and Carthage, and of Rome's rise as a Mediterranean power. (*****)
Paul Cartledge: The Spartans
A history of one of the world's first totalitarian states. (****)
Byron York: The Vast Left Wing Conspiracy : The Untold Story of the Democrats' Desperate Fight to Reclaim Power
Despite the lurid title, this is a well-written examination of the Left's efforts to unseat George Bush in 2004, focussing on groups and individuals outside the Democratic Party. (***)
Bruce Bawer: While Europe Slept : How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Bawer, a liberal American ex-pat in Norway, warns of the danger Europe and the West face from the growing population of unassimilated, anti-liberal radical Muslim immigrants there. (****)
Martin Gilbert: Winston Churchill's War Leadership (Vintage)
A fascinating essay on the qualities that made Churchill a great war leader, based on a lecture given at the White House in 2002.
Bruce Bartlett: Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party's Buried Past
An extensively footnoted documentation of the Democratic Party's racist past. (****)
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The Obama campaign claims 200,000 people listened to the Prophet Barack speak. At the World Politics Review blog, however, John Rosenthal analyzes the live coverage of the event on German TV and wonders whether the Obama campaign lied about attendance and inflated the numbers by a factor of ten.
In other words, did only 20,000 people show up to hear the new World President?
Hmmmm... 
(hat tip: Michelle Malkin)
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