Reviews

Nearly all of my reviews have appeared in the print edition of Carolina Journal.  Those which don’t have a home elsewhere on the Web are posted here for convenient reference, some of them re-titled or slightly revised.  These are grouped in historical order and by subject, not in order of publication.

For news articles, commentary and features, see my article index.

“The Foundingest Father”
Joseph P. Ellis, His Excellency, George Washington

A Tale of Two Revolutionaries
James R. Gaines, For Liberty and Glory:  Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions

How Pirates Helped Win The Revolutionary War
Robert H. Patton, Patriot Pirates:  The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American Revolution

A Man of “Remarkable Contradictions”
Robert V. Remini, Andrew Jackson, in the Great Generals Series, Gen. Wesley Clark, ed.

Too Much TR To Fit
Aida D. Donald, Lion In The White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt

From The Mexican Revolution to Reagan’s
Reid Buckley, An American Family: The Buckleys