Schnooks, Crooks, Liars and Scoundrels: A Field Guide to Identifying Political Buffoons by Gene Berardelli is an informative and thought-provoking nonfiction guide to exploring the intricacies of government and politics. The author explores the impact of factors like derision and ridicule on American political culture....

Struggling for Democracy: My Story by Joseph Cheng is a memoir that records one man’s eyewitness account of Hong Kong’s campaign for democracy. This is a historical journey that spans the years 1949 to 2020 and covers the significant economic and political developments that took...

I grew up in the South in the ‘50s and ‘60s. I was taught that being an American meant we all had equal rights regardless of socioeconomic status. However, many did not share this mindset, and discrimination abounded. The South especially has a history of...

The founding fathers of the world’s most powerful nation − the United States of America − were both objective and precise about the form of government and its workings when they drafted the American constitution. They intended that a representative government would control the state,...

In his book Socialism: Origins, Expansion, Decline, and the Attempted Revival in the United States, Phillip Bryson delves deeper into the subject of socialism and its history by answering virtually every question on the subject. These include the origins of socialism, and the theories, concepts,...

Ship of Blood: Mutiny and Slaughter Aboard the Harry A. Berwind, and the Quest for Justice by Charles Oldham tells the true-life story of three shipmates’ fight for justice. On a moonlit night in October 1905, the schooner Harry A. Berwind was found in distress....

Stress Test: How Donald Trump Threatens American Democracy by William Cooper is a collection of previously published columns by the author. The theme is American Democracy, its current state of health, and the stresses it has undergone during and after the Trump presidency. The collection...

Stateless: One Man's Struggle for an Identity by Gerard van Leeuwen is the true story of Kamal Kojadin, who is unregistered and finds himself unable to open a bank account, get married, or care for his children. Kamal suspects that various governments were denying his...

Strike Hard and Expect No Mercy follows author and former Tank Platoon Leader Galen D. Peterson's experiences while serving on behalf of the US Army in Iraq. A West Pointer who suffered a brain injury during his stay in Iraq, Lieutenant Peterson unwittingly received the...

Underwater espionage is not a topic that receives much public attention due to its highly classified nature, so Spies of the Deep will come as a revelation to many readers. W. Craig Reed, himself an experienced submariner and diver, describes a world of intrigue, danger,...