american politics – Scott J. Pearson’s Book Review

Madam Secretary: A Memoir by Madeleine Albright

By Scott J. Pearson | August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 by Scott J. Pearson

Madeleine Albright served in Bill Clinton’s administration as UN Ambassador and Secretary of State – the first female ever in that role. Since Clinton was especially active in international diplomacy, she held a front-row seat and observed many international characters and diplomatic ventures. Further, her career broke the glass ceiling for women in government, and she did it while being a doting mother, grandmother, and even a divorcee. Finally, along with her birth family, she…

It Can’t Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis

By Scott J. Pearson | October 11, 2021October 11, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

This book’s ironic title indicates the “average American’s” complacency towards political concerns – a theme as relevant today as it was during the Great Depression. This book, written at the height of the Depression in 1935, imagines what would happen if a populist/fascist won the presidential election of 1936. Fascism was already taking root in Italy and Germany, and it was on the rise in America (primarily through Senator Huey Long, as the afterword explains).…

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The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

By Scott J. Pearson | August 30, 2021August 30, 2021 by Scott J. Pearson

Do you think America has never seen such polarizing times as ours today? Pulitizer Prize winner Jon Meacham stands ready to correct you and then to enlist you in the struggle for America to choose the better path. In this work, starting with Abraham Lincoln, he traces how historically Americans fought over choices that today might seem taken for granted – like women’s suffrage, lynchings, the right to vote, and trumped-up charges of political treason.…