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A Patriot's History of the United States

12/29/2004

In their latest offering, A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professors Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen abandon the “prissy” pretenses of pure ideological objectivity and, rejecting the liberal historical revisionism of recent decades, openly seek to affirm the moral character of the United States and restore her place as a “city on a hill.”

Freakonomics

4/12/2005

Stemming from a 2003 profile in the New York Times Magazine, Freakonomics, coauthored with journalist Stephen J. Dubner, is a piece of popularized economic literature that translates Levitt’s academic work into a Malcolm Gladwell style book of pop social science research. Covering everything from sumo wrestling to bagel selling, Freakonomics employs basic economic principles to illuminate a host of interesting and eclectic facts about human nature, in the process, introducing us to one of the hottest minds in economics today.