What I'm reading
This is a running list, with the most recent on top. “Reading” is figurative, as I listen to a lot of recorded books.
Christopher Tyerman, How to Plan a Crusade: Religious War in the High Middle Ages.
Matthew, The Gospel According to Matthew.
Calvin Coolidge, The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. (Edited and with commentary by Amity Schlaes and Matthew Denhart)
Don Shift, Rural Home Defense.
Peter Schweizer, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans.
Hilaire Belloc, The Servile State.
Angelo Codevilla, Informing Statecraft: Intelligence for a New Century.
Jozef Mackiewicz, The Triumph of Provocation.
M. Stanton Evans, Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies.
John Bunyan, Pilgrim’s Progress.
Fr. Mark Mary, Presence of God.
Adam Nicolson, Why Homer Matters.
Mark Eddy Smith, Tolkein’s Ordinary Virtues: Exploring the Themes of The Lord of the Rings.
D. J. Taylor, On Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Biography.
Dinesh D’Souza, The Enemy at Home.
John A. Gentry, Neutering the CIA: Why US Intelligence vs Trump has Long-Term Consequences.
John MacArthur, Twelve Unlikely Heroes.
2023 (Alphabetical by author)
Thomas J. Baker, The Fall of the FBI.
James D. Bales, ed., J. Edgar Hoover Speaks Concerning Communism.
Christopher M. Belitto, Alexander the Great: General, Leader, God?
John Berlau, George Washington, Entrepreneur.
Charles Arthur Conant, Alexander Hamilton.
Richard Dargie, The History of Britain.
Harvey D. Egan, The Apostle Paul: Christianity’s Original Mystic.
Stasi and John Eldredge, Captivating.
Exodus, Old Testament.
Stephen Friend, True Blue: My Journey from Beat Cop to Suspended FBI Whistleblower.
Beverly Gage, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century.
Malcolm Gladwell, David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.
Judith Herrin, Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire.
J. Edgar Hoover, On Communism.
Ralph Hope, The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi Into the Present.
William G. Hyland, Jr., George Mason.
Isaiah, Old Testament.
Paul Johnson, A History of Christianity.
John Klar, Small Farm Republic.
James Lindsay, The Marxification of Education.
Matthew Lohmeier, Irresistible Revolution.
Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations.
William S. McFeely, Frederick Douglass.
Scott Reynolds Nelson, Oceans of Grain: How American Wheat Remade the World.
Patrick K. O’Donnell, Washington’s Immortals: The Untold Story of an Elite Regiment Who Changed the Course of the Revolution.
Carla Gardina Pestana, The World of Plymouth Plantation.
Nathaniel Philbrick, Bunker Hill (second time).
Helen Pluckrose and James, Cynical Theories.
Neil Price, Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings.
James S. Robbins, Erasing America.
Stacy Schiff, The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams. (second time)
Fulton Sheen, Communism and the Conscience of the West.
_____, Philosophies at War.
Ralph de Toledano, Cry Havoc.
_____, J. Edgar Hoover: The Man In His Time.
Mark Twain, Joan of Arc.
Harlow Giles Unger, John Quincy Adams (second time).
Michael Walsh, The Devil’s Pleasure Palace.
_____, The Fiery Angel.
Booker T. Washington, The Future of the American Negro.
Martin Whittock, Mayflower Lives: Pilgrims in a New World and the Early American Experience.
Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI.
Diana West, The Red Thread.
Sam Willis, The Struggle for Sea Power: A Naval History of the American Revolution.
Don Yaeger, Brian Kilmeade, George Washington’s Secret Six.
Fiction - Re-read some old classics and discovered James Nelson’s historical maritime novels of the American Revolution.
Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage.
James L. Nelson, All the Brave Fellows.
_____, By Force of Arms.
_____, The Continental Risque.
_____, Lords of the Ocean.
_____, The Maddest Idea.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.
_____, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
_____, The Best Short Stories.
_____, Roughing It.