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History Book Reviews: GOODBYE SPOCK
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Saturday, March 28, 2015. One fan’s tribute to a fallen star. My review of I Am Spock. Rating 5 of 5). On February 27, 2015 we lost Leonard Nimoy. As a lifelong Star Trek. Fan the loss of Mr. Spock is a painful one, and over the last few weeks I was trying to think of a right way to pay a tribute to him. I could go on about how Star Trek. The other ...
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History Book Reviews: March 2013
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Wednesday, March 27, 2013. DREAMS OF AN IDEALIST. A review of Thomas J. Knock’s To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. Rating 4 of 5). Thomas Knock’s book To End All Wars. Is a study of President Wilson’s foreign policy. Wilson was an idealist but Wilson was not alone in his idealism. There were many people and movement...
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History Book Reviews: May 2012
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Tuesday, May 29, 2012. A review of Joseph J. Ellis’ American Creation. Rating 5 of 5). My very first history book review was on Ellis’ His Excellency. Years later I am now reviewing another one of his books. American Creation. 8220;The founding generation, then, had the advantage of occupying a place in time that enjoyed the benefit of post-aristocr...
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History Book Reviews: December 2011
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Thursday, December 29, 2011. A review of S.B. Chrimes’ Henry VII. 1972, original) (1999, my copy). Rating 4 of 5). The evil King Richard III, who Henry must depose to take the crown). Jasper Tudor, the uncle who raised his royal nephew when in exile). He also goes on to explain that Elizabeth was technically still a declared bastard by Parliament...
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History Book Reviews: March 2014
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Saturday, March 15, 2014. FUNNY BOOK ON PRESIDENTS. A review of Barbara Holland’s Hail to the Chiefs: Presidential mischief, morals, and Malarkey from George W. to George W. Rating 4 of 5). A few years ago my sister bought me this book as a birthday present. Here are some of my favorite examples. Holland comments on President Washington and praying.
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History Book Reviews: February 2012
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Friday, February 24, 2012. A review of Antonia Fraser’s Cromwell. Rating 5 of 5). Cromwell is very complicated man and Fraser does a good job in presenting his many sides. Oliver Cromwell Warts and All). King Charles I, many kings sent their subjects to the ax, he got sent there by his subjects). However as a political leader if one wishes to view h...
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History Book Reviews: NOT OVER THIS WAR YET?
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Sunday, October 26, 2014. NOT OVER THIS WAR YET? A review of Tony Horwitz’s Confederate’s in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War (1998). Rating 5 of 5). I should begin with a simple disclaimer. I have absolutely no sympathy or respect for “the Lost Cause of the South.”. He comes across a diverse group of people from armature to hardc...
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History Book Reviews: March 2012
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Thursday, March 29, 2012. THE LAST KING OF AMERICA. A review of Jeremy Black’s George III: America’s Last King. Rating 5 of 5). King George III, older). I have some sympathy with George, although I do not agree with monarchy, if you are going to have one does it not make sense to let the monarch do his job? King George III with a nice hat). An ironi...
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History Book Reviews: September 2014
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Thursday, September 18, 2014. A review of Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time. Rating 5 of 5). When I was reading the Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant. Or the works of Julius. I found when they explained military tactics or organization to me I understood it the same way I understood chess. I greatly enjoyed the parts of the book when he would disc...
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History Book Reviews: July 2012
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Jeremy A. Perron's silly attempt to organize his thoughts on all the history books he has read. This is being done for reasons only he can really understand. Sunday, July 15, 2012. A review of Joseph Wheelan’s Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress. Rating 4 of 5). 8220;Adams had become the de facto chief spokesman for many of those denied a voice in government—abolitionists silenced by the Gag Rule, slaves, Indians, and finally, women. On...Almost ...