No comments about Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy.

No comments about Golda Meir (Mujeres en la historia series).

No comments about Roosevelt the Reformer: Theodore Roosevelt as Civil Service Commissioner, 1889-1895.

No comments about Honestly Abe: A Cartoon Biography of Abraham Lincoln.

No comments about Abraham Lincoln.

1 comments about Honest Mistakes : The Life and Death of Trinh Minh The (1922-1955): South Vietnam's Alternative Leader.

1. While I admire the author of this book for his extensive use of Vietnamese sources, something you rarely see in a western book. There are two minor problems with this book that I did it for me. One, the author based lots of his analysis based on the book written by the author Cuu Long a synonym of some unknown writer with a grudge with the Diem regime. Also, although the author could not found anay evidence to determined who murdered General Trinh Minh The, the author made the assumption that President Diem was the murderer since he has the most to gain. The problem with this assumption is that the author missed an important group that has the far more to gain with General The's death than President Diem and that is the French-trained and French bred generals in the South Vietnamese Army that was falling out of favor with Diem because of General The.
   
   Former comrades of General The' such as the prominent attorney Dinh Thach Binh believed that the French-trained and French bred generals in the South Vietnamese has the most to gained from General The's death and the one who murdered General The was General Duong Van Minh who later overthrow and murdered President Diem. Both Duong Van Minh and Do Mau were French trained generals who was falling out of favor with President Diem while General The who fought both the French and Vietminh was being courted and respected by Diem. It was jealousy and the lust for power that compeled Duong Van Minh to murdered General The and later President Diem.

No comments about The nominating of a president: The three nominations of Ronald Reagan as Republican candidate for the presidency.

No comments about The Papers of George Washington: Revolutionary War Series : June-September 1775 (Papers of George Washington, Revolutionary War Series).

No comments about Nelson Mandela: No Easy Walk to Freedom.

2 comments about Franklin, Jefferson, & Madison: on Religion and the State (U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights).

1. Franklin, Jefferson, & Madison: On Religion And The State by Constitutional history expert and scholar Gregory Schaaf (Co-coordinator of the Center for Indigenous Arts & Cultures, an historical archive and museum located in Sante Fe, New Mexico) showcases the life stories of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison with a special emphasis upon their respective religious views and expressions of faith as recorded in their correspondences and other writings as revealed in their personal papers housed in the Library of Congress, the National Archives, and other library collections. These three "founding fathers" shared the similar views that one of the most fundamental rights in the new American republic was that of the Freedom of Religion; that no government official (or anyone else) should be able to interfere with any citizen's free exercise of whatever their religious beliefs and practices should be; that the newly formed United State of America should not adopt any religions as "official"; that federal tax dollars should never be allocated to the support of any particular church or support any specific religious group; that all of the different religions, Christian or non-Christian should be respected; and that the doctrine of Church/State separation should be maintained from the local municipal level to that of the national government. Franklin, Jefferson, & Madison: On Religion And The State offers a superbly presented contribution to what our political heritage truly was with respect to the issues of Church and State, and is a timely and very highly recommended contribution to the contemporary national dialogue over the proper role of the religious community with respect to the secular government, and the secular government's involvement with religious issues.



2. I purchased this book at an ALA convention and was fortunate enough to have a chance to speak with the author. It was very obvious that he has a great love of and knowledge of our founding fathers and of the Constitution. That love of his subject comes through as he describes the reasons why it is important to maintain a seperation of Church and State and the fallacies of the "Christian Nation" rhetoric that's becoming more and more common these days.