Earlier this week at National Review, I reviewed Timothy Lombardo’s new book on Frank Rizzo and blue-collar conservatism.
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Two book reviews
StandardI’ve got two book reviews up this week:
–The first, at National Review Online, is a review of William Anthony Hay’s Lord Liverpool: A Political Life, in which I take a look at the United Kingdom’s longest-serving Prime Minister and how he affected the development of Anglo-American conservatism.
–The second, at University Bookman, is of Carl Lawrence Paulus’s The Slaveholding Crisis: Fear of Insurrection and the Coming of the Civil War, where I discuss the author’s analysis of the effect of foreign emancipation and slave revolts on the slavery debate in America.
Great Revolt
StandardToday at National Review Online, check out my review of Salina Zito and Brad Todd’s book exploring of the populist forces that lifted Donald Trump into the White House.
The Conflict That Shaped Our Constitutional Order
StandardMy latest book review at National Review Online explores Chief Justice John Marshall and his role in shaping the nation we know today. Check it out!
Unhappy Home
StandardToday at National Review, I review David Cannadine’s history of Victorian Britain, the story of an empire that was widely successful abroad but deeply divided at home.
From Party Hack to Reformer
StandardCheck out my book review of a biography of Chester A. Arthur in The Weekly Standard.
Hutchinson, Clinton, and Moore
StandardAlso today at The Federalist, I discuss antinomianism in religion and politics, and what it means about partisan defenses of Roy Moore and Al Franken.
Unconditional Surrender
StandardToday at The Federalist, I review Ron Chernow‘s new Grant biography and explain why Grant is finally getting the appreciation he deserves.
Two Directors, One Office
StandardIn the CFPB fight, history repeats itself as farce. What it means, and what it says about the parties involved, in my latest at The Federalist.
The Party of McKinley
StandardToday at National Review, I reviewed Robert W. Merry’s new biography of William McKinley and what McKinley’s policies mean to the present-day Republican Party.