book reviews
Woodward and Costa’s book ‘Peril’ shows Trump as Mussolini-in-waiting
October 22, 2021Those who think the fascist danger is overblown or mask it in classless, “authoritarian,” and “white nationalist” vagaries, would do well to consider that some closest to the process, while late in sounding the alarm, had...
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Multimillionaire counterrevolutionary: Mark R. Levin’s new book ‘American Marxism’
October 20, 2021Intellectually lazy, sloppily assembled, riddled with errors of fact and interpretation on almost every page, American Marxism serves to be memorized and repeated like a catechism for its conservative reading audience.
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‘Washington Bullets’: The U.S. history of coups and assassinations under review
October 8, 2021Mainstream history books portray U.S. foreign policy in benevolent terms: always dedicated to freedom, democracy and human rights. The true history is somewhat different.
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Volume 3 of Manuel Tiago’s fiction appears: An interview with the translator
October 5, 2021People's World talks with Eric Gordon on the latest translation in the Manuel Tiago series of novels from International Publishers.
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Hidden history: The truth about Reconstruction
September 17, 2021Back in 1988, historian Eric Foner brought us the story of a revolution reversed; it's worth revisiting today.
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