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The Book Bench

Commentary, Review, and Excerpts


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 CAROLINA CONTRARIAN: A Walk in the Park by Padraig Martin (Review)

A Charlottesville rally attendee provides a new perspective on Unite the Right.

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​BOYD CATHEY: Abraham Lincoln and the Ghost of Karl Marx

Review of An Unfinished Revolution by Robin Blackburn

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GENE KIZER, JR.: Charlottesville Untold: Review

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BERNHARD THUERSAM: Book Excerpt from Cultural Revolution in Russia, ed. Sheila Fitzpatrick

Soviet Cultural Revolution in Education, 1928-1931

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 GENE KIZER, JR: Robert E. Lee and Me by Ty Seidule (REVIEW)

This new book is heavy on virtue-signaling, light on history.

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NEIL KUMAR: John Brown's Body
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A Review of the Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement by Otto Scott

Though Brown is long dead, his bloodthirsty spirit marches on.

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NEIL KUMAR: All That is Ugly, Broken and Foul

The Transgender Industrial Complex (REVIEW)

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BOYD CATHEY: The South Was Right: New Edition (REVIEW)

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AL BENSON: When Rebel was Cool: Review
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STEPHEN DAVIS: Richard Weaver and The Southern Tradition at Bay: An Appreciation

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The Color of Compromise by Jemar Tisby: A Review by David Scott

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Yankee Empire: Aggressive Abroad and Despotic at Home REVIEW by Brett Moffatt

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​​"The Confederate Myth Buster" by Walter D. Kennedy REVIEW by ​Al Benson

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Silverwood, the South and What's Normal Anyway? REVIEW by Walt Garlington

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“A Fatal Mercy: The Man Who Lost the Civil War” REVIEW by Al Benson

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"Back to Blood" by Tom Wolfe REVIEW by James Rutledge Roesch

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Snowflake Buddies: Song of the Real Resistance REVIEW by Dissident Mama

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The Land We Love: The South and Its Heritage by Dr. Boyd D. Cathey REVIEW by Al Benson

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Calling Out the Captains: REVIEW of Militant Normals by Kurt Schlicter and Ship of Fools by Tucker Carlson REVIEW by ​Carolina Contrarian

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Two new books examine the failures of the American ruling class and the public response.

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Life in the Old Land Yet: Introducing four new books that give hope for the future of Dixie by Clyde Wilson

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​Theological Liberalism in the North: EXCERPT from Sacred Conviction: The South's Stand for Biblical Authority by Joseph Jay

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Quench the Smoldering Wick by Gordon Peter Wilson REVIEW by Paul Gottfried

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Lincoln on Race and Slavery Henry Louis Gates, Jr, Editor REVIEW by Michael Martin

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The Classical Origins of Southern Literature by Dr. James Everett Kibler REVIEW by Robert Peters

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Leviathan and Its Enemies by Samuel T. Francis REVIEW by Paul Gottfried

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