Radical Book Reviews Samples For Students

Book Review: Republicanism and Democracy

The American Revolution was a complex political process that was inevitable. This is because the wave of the revolution was shaped by logical forces and circumstances that faced the American colonists leaving them with no other choice than revolting against the tyranny of the absolute monarchy that extended its hand to the Americas. However, the pressure to revolt on the colonist was not only experienced in Northern America but also was evident in other parts of the world. This accounts for other historical revolts like the French revolution. Gordon Wood the author of this book focuses of the progressive interpretation ...

Introduction

In the book, “Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World,” Merchant has essentially written a handy introduction to the ecological problems as well as issues from a radical viewpoint. Capra (1996) agrees that ecological thinking emerged simultaneously in a number of disciplines in first half of the century particularly in 1920s. The ecological thinking was pioneered by the biologists, who stressed the opinion of living organisms as the integrated wholes a fact shared by Merchant. In Radical Ecology, Merchant manages to incorporate major topics of concern like social ecology, deep ecology, science and worldviews, ecofeminism, spiritual ecology, among other important topics, all of ...

Storch, Randi. Red Chicago: American communism at its grassroots, 1928-35. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007.

Randi Storch's 2007 book Red Chicago: American Communism at its Grassroots details the subversive movement in Chicago at the time, when there was a vast upswing of Communist thought stemming from the worker's revolts of the time. The American Communist Party had a substantial presence there, and the book describes their struggle for relevancy and to have an effect on the outcomes of political action at the time. The book attempts to reconcile the thought processes of these people with two very different, contradictory ideas: "one of an organization that celebrated Soviet leaders, co-opted Soviet symbols, and embraced revolutionary Marxist-Leninist ideology, ...

Republicanism and Democracy in the 18th Century

A Book Review
Introduction
Some of us have learned the history of the American Revolution in a way which leads us to think the revolution was inevitable. There were logical forces and circumstances leading to the revolution and like other people in other revolutions the American colonists reached a point where they had no other choice but to revolt. Some of us have learned that the revolution parallels the French Revolution. The author, Gordon S. Wood, takes aim especially at what he describes as the Progressive interpretations of the American Revolution and demonstrates neither the revolution nor the revolution’ ...

Introduction

In the past, the place of women in the society was only recognized as that next to the man. Her roles and responsibilities clearly defined as that of being a home-maker, the support for her husband, a mother to her children, nothing more, nothing less. Girls that eventually became women grew up with these facts as they were taught and instilled in them from a tender age hence did not expect any more from life. However, there are those that challenged these societal expectations. Questioned these roles and responsibilities that they were expected to live by. These individuals went against the grain ...

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Book Review 2: ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz
Background Introduction
The book ‘Children of Dust’ by Ali Eteraz focuses on his narrative regarding his religion centered childhood. He grew up in a deeply religious Islamic family, and like most children, he follows in the same religion pathway as his parents. However, Abir Eteraz’s relationship with the religion identity is far way complex than his peers and age mates in his neighborhood in America. With time, the young boy becomes fanatical and obsessed with Islamic faith with the limited comprehension of a child. Largely, his parents are a ...

BOOK REVIEW: THE RADICAL AND THE REPUBLICAN BY JAMES OAKES

The Radical and the Republican is one of the books that I would love to read again and again. This book discussed the type of politics as well as the attitudes of the American Presidents Abraham Lincoln and the Black American Reformer Frederick Douglas about the issue of freeing the slaves and slavery itself. Accordingly, the author of the book, James Oakes, went into a great detail of discussing the reasons as well as the politics on the two aforementioned personalities' stand on slavery. He also focused on the difference between the perspectives of the two personalities. Oakes noted that ...

Introduction

This book takes a look at the overall picture of labor in America and how different workers reacted towards the conditions that they were working in. The book also looks at the origin of our current labor system and what developed it. It also covers the history of labor in America and how we have managed to reach the current labor system. In the book we also get to know what changed labor in the United States of America. It looks at both the positive developments and negative developments/changes. It also shows the people who influenced many of the major ...

This paper describes the social movements that Blacks participated in during the period from 1900 to date. It tackles the ways in which the movements can be described as one long civil rights movement, and also how were they distinct movements. The paper further assesses their goals and the manner in which they have effected change in the United States. The paper also points out prominent civil rights activists that played an important role in spearheading the civil rights movements.
Most of the black social movements from 1900 to date have basically been fighting against racism. The 20th Century ...

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Book Review: Poor Economics - A Radical Rethink of the Way to Fight Global Poverty
The book primarily focuses on the reasons of poverty and how to alleviate it from the world. The book discusses various topics and carries out program in different villages selected randomly . it also discusses how they are facing the problem of poverty and the measures taken to eradicate it.
The book also discuses about the policies that are implemented in eradicating poverty but are total failure. This is due to lack of understanding the exact reason of poverty. The main purpose of removing poverty ...

Islam in Saudi Arabia

Introduction.
In his book Islam in Saudi Arabia David Commins takes us through the journey of Islam as a religion in Saudi from the eighteenth century up to the twentieth century. Chapter three is titled Wahhabism and the modern state. Wahhabism rose when Wahhab and Ibn Saud signed a pact giving rise to the state of Saudi Arabia. Having been promised power and religious legitimacy by Wahhab, Ibn Saud then pledged to ensure that the teachings of Wahhabism were carried out in the entire Kingdom. In this chapter, we see how subsequent rulers handled crisis through initiating changes like ...

In his description of himself, Baer acknowledges that he wasn’t born a patriot whose intention was to work for the CIA. He describes himself as a struggling student who had personal agendas (Baer, 2002). The book gives several accounts of what Baer describes as frustrations and mistakes he made while posted in Lebanon and India. The book also discusses the failings of the CIA. Baer gives the reasons for a failing CIA as: replacement of human intelligence with computer and satellite technology; a risk aversion approach by the agency that promoted bureaucratic practices and undermined intelligence gathering; and the prioritization of interests ...

Introduction

Journalism is a field that can have many faces. One may even go as far as saying that this industry is the best one when it comes to making perfect disguise. Throughout history, it can be attested that journalism and political science has been merged, perhaps subconsciously by the people working in these fields. In modern day politics, for example, a stage where democracy appears to be the dominant player, as evidenced by the fact that the number of counties that are based on a democratic and liberal type of government is far larger than those that are based on monarchy and ...

Book Review: Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Introduction
The published dissertation for Millett’s PhD in Literature from Columbia University was a book called the Sexual Politics by Kate Millett. In 1970, Millet finished her dissertation however she started it way back in 1969 but successfully defended the dissertation and published it almost ten years later. The book was known to be a master piece and also looked at as being very much successful and notoriousduring the time it was written. Research shows that Sexual Politics and economics was a piece that assisted influence and inspiring the move of feminism. Millett’s controversial thesis in Sexual Politics and ...

‘The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama’

The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama is a book set in the current historical setting but dating its foundation in the 1960. The book is a political satire that displays the origin and growth of democracy in terms of division and selection of ruling parties. Hayden creates a political picture that may shape the political perception of the current generation. In his book he challenges the current generation to appreciate the political struggles in the 1960’s and recognize the advantages of these efforts. Hayden also displays an old political picture that was never aware of democracy and free will. ...

Chapter One: Down is Up

- The chapter starts with John the Baptist’s and Mary’s prophecies about the coming
of the new order, the kingdom of God. This new order, the upside-down kingdom, would bring a radical shift of social patterns in which social pyramid is about to turn the other way around.
- Jesus describes the kingdom of God and other kingdoms of this world as two inverted ladders.
- In Bible God’s kingdom is described as a collectivity, it is not an aggregate of individuals, but the network of people who fully dedicate themselves to the reign of ...

Introduction

The Second World War was one of the biggest wars to be witnessed in the world history. Countries ventured into the Second World War in order to settle their scores that were left unsettled during the First World War. German was the main problem causer and other European countries teamed up so as to oust Hitler who kept on conquering Europe. Hitler ignored advice from the military personnel but insisted that they push on further. Japan on the other hand wanted to become the world’s super power and so continued with its scathing attacks to the countries that ...