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  • narcissus.jpg Culture by KCan
    Christopher Lasch forces history through a multi-disciplinary wringer in order to craft his scathing critique of contemporary American society. He employs sociology, literary criticism, neo-Marxist economics and proto-libertarian politics, but the force with the mightiest gravitational pull in Lasch...     		Ranking:
  • right.jpg Turning Right by KCan
    From the aftermath of the 1964 Presidential election the conservative movement in America – if not the GOP itself – appeared all but dead. The champion of the right, Republican Barry Goldwater, had suffered a withering defeat in his bid to unseat President Lyndon Johnson. Meanwhile, bickering and backstabbing...     		Ranking:
  • churchill-V.jpg V was for Victory by KCan
    Most Americans already know what the “V” symbolized back then. The two-finger salute, whether held aloft by Winston Churchill or newsreel GIs, has become an icon in films, folklore, and even on billboards. In fact, as popular culture has come to depict World War II, not only did V stand for victory,...     		Ranking:
  • nash.jpg Roderick Nash by droogie
    Nash draws a line between conceptual wilderness and the real thing and by doing so he makes a strong argument for realigning socio-cultural ideas to better reflect the interchange between humans and the natural world. In his prologue, Nash plays with the etymology of the word “wilderness,” not as an...     		Ranking:
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  • Tsimshian.jpg Heavens are Changing by droogie
    This book gives a complex and often technical look at Christianity during the nineteenth century in what is now British Columbia , as Euro-Canadian missionaries brought their religion to the native Tsimshian people. Susan Neylan analyzes the role of evangelical sects as well as the policies of the Canadian...     		Ranking:
  • CLOCK.jpg A Forest of Time by SageParsley
    Historians can be just as myopic and exclusionary as everybody else, and not just in the subjects they choose to study. The rules of good history demand linear thinking, not to mention a coherent view of the universe that can be conveyed with written language. But because scholars tend to ignore non...     		Ranking:
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