http://www.unrv.com/book-review/the-death-of-carthage.php The Death of Carthage by Robin E. Levin Book Review by MarcusMettius Good historical fiction is a two-fer. You can get the facts by reading Polybius and Livy. But you need a Robin Levin to introduce you to Marcus Nemo Nemonides (Marcus Nobody, son of Nobody) – I just love that name! Yep – […]
New Review of The Death of Carthage by Marcus Metius, AKA Alex Johnston
July 18, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Leonidas of Sparta, A Heroic King
July 8, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Leonidas of Sparta, A Heroic King, is the third of three novels by Helena Shrader on the life of Leonidas. The first, Leonidas, Boy of the Agoge portrayed the childhood and youth of the Agiad Prince as he is educated in Spartan fashion in the Agoge. The second book, Leonidas a Peerless Peer, tells of […]
Book Review: Leaving the Quiet Room: My Rise From Religious Slavery to Atheism by Joe Zamecki
June 12, 2014 By Leave a Comment
I heard it said “Give me a child for the first six years of his education and I’ll mold him so that he’ll be a Catholic the rest of his life.” As Joe Zamecki can attest, it doesn’t always work that way. So how did Holy Ghost Catholic School ultimately fail in their mission? I […]
Book Review: Caesar’s Daughter-Julia’s song
June 9, 2014 By Leave a Comment
“It was a paranoid time in the City. Politicians were more concerned with denying glory to their rivals than with solving problems. Everybody was stabbing everybody in the back. There was no legitimate economy-it was characterized by exploitation and unsustainable debt. Discontent among the masses was rising-there were high levels of unemployment, and great resentment […]
Book Review: A Fighting Chance by Elizabeth Warren
June 3, 2014 By Leave a Comment
It is very rare in our modern political system to find a politician or either party who isn’t thoroughly beholden to moneyed interests and who actually fights for the interests of the poor and middle class. Elizabeth Warren is just such a politician. In A Fighting Chance, Warren tell the story of her life, her […]
How Did Slavery in the Amercan Antebellum South Compare to Slavery in the Ancient World?
May 22, 2014 By 1 Comment
In comparing the peculiar institution in the American Antebellum South with its ancestor in the ancient world, you find a few differences and many similarities. One of the most obvious differences is that to qualify as a slave in the Antebellum South, you had to have some Black African ancestry. You didn’t need much. By […]
Book Review: Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northrup
May 20, 2014 By Leave a Comment
I made the acquaintance of Solomon Northrup almost by chance. I had heard good things about the movie Twelve Years a Slave, but I probably wouldn’t have watched it if it hadn’t been offered as entertainment on an airplane flight to France. I wasn’t planning to read the book, but, as I was walking my […]
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