The Best of 2020: Top 5 Nonfiction
A totally nonscientific, off the cuff, Top 5 nonfiction books I read (not necessarily published in) in 2020
Tag: nonfiction
Suicide of the West and Its Critics
Goldberg does not deny the tensions involved in this conservative project within a liberal democratic capitalist system but rather accepts it as the challenge w...
Suicide of the West by Jonah Goldberg
Under attack from the left and the right are the very values and ideals that sustain our civilization. Democracy, free speech, free market capitalism are all i...
The Great Halifax Explosion by John U Bacon
From New York Times bestselling author John U. Bacon, a gripping narrative history of the largest manmade detonation prior to Hiroshima. A great book on a very...
Tin Can Titans by John Wukovits
An excellent narrative of the blue-collar destroyers. Destroyers did not have the firepower of battleships or cruisers or the glamour of the aircraft carriers, ...
City on a Grid: How New York Became New York by Gerard Koeppel
The book is a fascinating look at urban planning (or lack thereof in some respects) from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries in America's largest city - N...
Honor Before Glory by Scott McGaugh
Honor Before Glory is the story of the 442nd, a segregated unit of Japanese American citizens, commanded by white officers, that finally rescued the "lost batta...
The Commodification of God
Commodification has led most people to view God as a device to be used rather than an all-powerful Creator to be revered. This also explains our abundant and ca...