Ernest W. Lefever

Gandhi & Churchill: The Epic Rivalry that Destroyed an Empire and Forged Our Age Arthur Herman, Bantam, 736 pages, $30.00….

1. The Twenty Years’ Crisis: 1919-1939 by E.H. Carr (Macmillan, 1939). Published in 1939 just before Hitler invaded Poland, The…

The Most Noble Adventure : The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe (by Greg Behrman, Free…

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (Robert Alter, Norton, $35, 518 pages) The Bible has been the most…

For eight fateful years, from Hitler’s Nuremberg rallies in 1937 to the collapse of Germany and Japan in 1945, I…

A curious genius from childhood, Wernher von Braun was born into the landowning nobility in Eastern Germany on March 23,…

Two years ago hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused more destruction than any other natural catastrophe in American history. New Orleans…

Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism James Piereson, Encounter Books, 250…

The Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes, HarperCollins, 464 pages, $26.95. Amity Shlaes’ brilliant and highly readable book surely must be the…

A half century ago, William F. Buckley, Jr., created quite a stir when he published God and Man At Yale,…

Land of Lincoln, by Andrew FergusonAtlantic Monthly Press, 279 pages, $24. There are at least 14,000 books on Abraham Lincoln,…

On April 25, Bill Moyers’ Journal opened its prime–time season on PBS with the blare of trumpets and an undisclosed…