A Dog Named Slugger by Leigh Brill Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy “I have cerebral palsy. I walk funny and my balance is bad. I fall a lot. My hands shake, too. That means I’m not so good at carrying things. And if I drop stuff, sometimes it’s hard to just bend […]
Year of Our Lord: Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta
April 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Year of Our Lord : Faith, Hope and Harmony in the Mississippi Delta Written by: T.R. Pearson Photography by: Langdon Clay Review by: Paul H. Yarbrough Year of Our Lord is a biography of an extraordinary man named Lucas McCarty who claims he is “white on the outside but black […]
Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope
March 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Click to Buy Tested: How Twelve Wrongly Imprisoned Men Held onto Hope (Dallas, TX: Brown Books Publishing Group, 2010) Review by Allen Mendenhall DNA technology has revolutionized our criminal justice system. The acceptance and widespread use of post-conviction DNA testing for imprisoned individuals has led to exonerations all across America. Organizations such as […]
Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties, Part 2
October 4, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday on SLR, Tom Carhart discussed his latest nonfiction release, Sacred Ties:From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War. Please enjoy the continuation of that conversation with SLR Contributor, Philip K. Jason, posted below. Are there any important distinctions you’d like to point out between a cadet’s West Point […]
Meet Tom Carhart, Author of Sacred Ties
October 3, 2010 by Leave a Comment
SLR Contributor Philip K. Jason was honored to interview military historian, West Point alum, and Vietnam veteran, Tom Carhart regarding his latest release, Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War. This factual account of six West Point soldiers fascinated us so much, we selected it as our October Read of the Month. […]
October Read of the Month – Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals, by Tom Carhart
October 1, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Sacred Ties: From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War Reviewed by Philip K. Jason Subtitled “From West Point Brothers to Battlefield Rivals: A True Story of the Civil War,” Sacred Ties, by Tom Carhart, aims to envision what is otherwise familiar material through a new lens. Though Civil […]
Resurrection After Exoneration
September 21, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, SLR contributor Allen Mendenhall posted a review of the new nonfiction release by John Thompson and Ronald Gauthier, Killing Time: An 18-Year Odyssey from Death Row to Freedom (Skyhorse Publishing, 2010). The book brings to light one man’s story of a wrongful conviction, and – after tremendous legal effort – his exoneration. But John Thompson […]