There is little doubt that the much anticipated Ken Burns’ PBS documentary, “The Roosevelts,” will be a cimamatic masterpiece. Telling a compelling story, woven together by the narration of famous actors, musically brilliant, and masterfully assembled is Ken Burns forte. However, as far as an in-depth examination of the personality and character of, Theodore Roosevelt… Read more »
David Marshall | david@understandingnow.com | www.understandingnow.com | (803) 395-0190 There’s a teaching rule circulating in the book publishing industry: “Search Amazon to see if your proposed title has already been used.” Shane Wall, a pastor of a growing church in the college town of Orangeburg, SC, did just that. To his surprise and admitted delight, he’d be the… Read more »
There’s a teaching rule circulating in the book publishing industry: Search Amazon to see if your proposed title has already been used. Shane Wall, a pastor of a growing church in the college town of Orangeburg, SC, did just that, and to his surprise and admitted delight, he’d be the first to ever publish a… Read more »
Neal F. Thompson’s Reckoning: Vietnam and America’s Cold War Experience, 1945-1991 (Charlevoix Books; print $22.95, Kindle $9.99) offers readers an original and insightful account of America’s Cold War experience by exposing and demolishing the propaganda surrounding the conventional wisdom about the events of the Cold War era. Cold War orthodoxy provides Americans with every reason… Read more »
Tangent Publishers observes the 100th Anniversary of the opening of the Panama Canal with the release of the paperback edition of The Cowboy and the Canal: How Theodore Roosevelt Cheated Colombia, Stole Panama, and Bamboozled America by J.M. Carlisle, Ph.D. The tale traces a powerful lineage of greed, corruption, fraud, and hubris underlying the quest… Read more »
