Superiority Book Reviews Samples For Students

Edward Luttwak, the Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire: From the First Century A.D. to the Third

At its peak, the Roman Empire was based on the following key components; security, stability, and prosperity for all. This is the reason why Luttwak believes that the Roman Empire’s grand strategy is by far the most superior in history and years of advancement in technology, strategy and as well as human behaviour will not get even close to unsettling the aforementioned fact. Before getting into the author’s argument, it is important to understand why Luttwak chose this subject matter. ...

Book Review: Race and Manifest Destiny: Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism

In Reginald Horsman's Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, the author studies racism in America in a manner that contributes significantly to the historiography of the Jacksonian Era. In this work, Horsman links racist ideologues to political events that have happened throughout history, Jim Crowism and Reconstruction being of particular focus. Horsman's thesis in this work is that the ideological elements of manifest destiny go hand in hand with the tenets of American racism; in essence, racism is a decidedly integral part of American ideology, one which provided a vital symbolic language that framed issues ranging from the ...

The epistolary novel by Charles de Secondat baron de Montesquieu, the “Persian Letters” gives a reflection of the eighteenth century society. It is therefore a critical primary source in regard to eighteenth century history considering the major changes of historical significance that were taking place at the time. One such change was the dawn of the age of enlightenment also referred to as the age of reason. The historical perspective of the novel may be lost because of Montesquieu’s extensive use of satire. However, it is intended to draw the attention of the reader towards the primary themes ...

Question 2: World War II- A Race War

Dower’s assertion was calculative and well informed. It is a true that World War II was pertinently motivated by racial pride and arrogance posed by the main participants particularly the America and Japan. Dower’s work provides a clear description of the effect of ethnicity and racial pride on the war. The scholar explores various situations with the intention of explaining motivate behind the decisions and practices assumed by each side. He presents sentiments that the two countries were equally wrong because they were all motivated by stereotypic assumption of viewing the other as polarized. Dower, feels that ...

David Landes book, The Wealth And Poverty Of Nations: why some are so rich and some so poor is arguably the most hotly debated economic book of our time, which seeks to explain the rise of Europe and why some nations easily achieved immense economic success while others continued being mired in poverty. Landes comes out as a witty author who is rich in anecdotal evidence, an astonishing range of intellectual information and a piercing analysis in regard as to why some countries command a substantially amount of wealth and economic supremacy while others have been entangled lives of poverty for centuries. ...

Divide Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War

Historical accounts often define important milestones for the human society. It is a creed that Ivan Musicant’s book Divided Waters: The Naval History of the Civil War lives up to as it defines a watershed moment not only in the history of America’s naval operations but also in all other aspects of its human development. The book gives a detailed overview of America’s naval operations during the period of the civil war. Ivan Musicant’s ability to paint such a vivid picture of the events at the time is aided by the use of both primary ...

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

Based on the nature of countryside people, the story is set to clearly distinguish them from the urban people who are modernized and composed. Connor inputs various characters, Hulga serving as the main character to emphasize on the four sections that the author divides the story into and to show the role of the four central characters. He focuses his main theme on intellectual of country people who end up suffering the same fate no matter the degree of intellect. Basically, the story implies that people are not what they really think they are nor are they what they ...

Important lesson from the text

In deed, David Halberstam’s The Making of a Quagmire is quite an informative book on the Vietnam War. As a result of reading it, I have come to learn a lot of facts about the long term; short term and immediate causes of this war; its course; end and deadly consequences on the Americans, Vietnamese and other people. However, the most important lesson I can learn from it is that the failure of the United States of America (USA) in this war should be blamed on the media.

The role of the media is so fundamental in the success of any ...

The author, Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III, was an American writer that worked mainly as a playwright in the American theater. He also published novels, poetry, short stories, screenplays, essays, and a great volume of memoirs. He received most of the top theatrical awards for his works on the stage, with A Streetcar Named Desire receiving the great Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. Up to date, he is considered among the best known classical writers in the American fields of theatre.
Most of the themes dominant his works (loneliness, desire, sickness, death, alcoholism, depression, etc) are mined from his ...