Tom Rider's Reviews

          Think of the Gulf Stream as oceanic river. That is how Stan Ulanski has presenting this maratime phenomenon. The Gulf Stream is part of the Atlantic gyre, a series of currents that together circulate ocean water in a clock-wise direction. Ulanski begins with the North Equatorial Current which flows west across the tropical Atlantic. [...]

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          Paul Kolbet argues that the large influence of church bishops in the late Roman empire was do in no small part to their shaping their Christian message into the recognizable strategies and practices of Greco-Roman oratory. Kolbert is entering a long controversy about how to view Augustine in terms of the classical tradition, still [...]

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          Alan Allport’s book is about British demobilization. American servicemen and women returning to civilian life faced adjustments as well, but ‘civvy street” Britain was more complicated. Allport assures us that many of the woes he discusses were not true of the majority of British soldiers and sailors either. Though some anxiety and a feeling [...]

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          Glenda Gilmore argues that the successes of the civil rights movement in the ‘50s and ‘60s has overshadowed both its radical roots in the inter-war period and what was achieved in those years. By the 1950s the nation of “Dixie” was under assault. It had become a mythical, isolated, imagined community that survived because [...]

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