The book, Trust me, I’m lying: the tactics and confessions of a media manipulator, by Ryan Holiday is a public relations campaign for the benefit of Ryan Holiday. It presents itself as a public service to teach you how to use the media to get the public to do what you want and how not… Read More »
Almost every American high school and college graduate in the United States has heard of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, but most have never read it. Those of us, who know of it, learn about it through the interpretations of textbook authors. I have listened to an e-audiobook version of The… Read More »
Commercials are designed in such a way to make us want things we don’t really need. We unwittingly become brainwashed into believing that the commercials’ products will make us cool, popular, happy, successful, glamorous, famous, or attractive to others. Commercials make us believe their products will solve our problems. When you read Thomas E. Woods’… Read More »
The Silence of Our Friends, by authors, Mark Long and Jim Demonakos with art by Nate Powell, is a graphic novel about real events that occurred during the Black American Civil Rights Era. When you read the Author’s Note at the end of the book, you will discover that one of the authors, Mark Long,… Read More »
Based upon the title, A Life Crossing Borders: Memoir of a Mexican-American Confederate by Reverend Santiago Tafolla, you might be under the impression that this memoir can contribute to your academic research paper on the American Civil War and debate over Black American slavery before and during the American Civil War of the 1860s. Luckily,… Read More »
I was searching for a library book that specialized in Native American cooking prior to the arrival of the English in New England since the Thanksgiving holiday is approaching. The only book I can find at my local library is Native New England Cooking by Dale Carson. Many of the recipes in this book represent… Read More »
Buskers is a compelling memoir of two brothers, Heth and Jed Weinstein. I couldn’t stop reading until I finished the book. The authors start with their parents’ background and their childhood. There was a moment in time when Heth and Jed were very young and where the family was happy in California. Their father was… Read More »