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The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedomby h. w. brandsdoubleday, 464 pages, $30 r The Problem with Lincolnby thomas j. dilorenzoregnery...

The Scourge of War:The Life of William Tecumseh Shermanby brian holden reid oxford, 640 pages, $34.95 If William Tecumseh Sherman is known for one thing, it is the scorching...

Everyone on that hot, dusty August afternoon in 1858 in the square at Ottawa, Illinois, knew who one of the men on the platform was. That man was Stephen...

Toscanini: Musician of Conscience by harvey sachsliveright, 944 pages, $39.95 When the first instruction manual for leaders of orchestras—Johann Mattheson’s Der vollkommene Capellmeister—appeared in 1739, it was a sign...

I love my country – I fear my government. I first saw that mantra as a bumper sticker in the Clinton nineties. It then began to sprout as billboards and...

Just seventy years ago, a Fortune poll reported that 62 percent of Americans listened to classical music, 40 percent could identify Arturo Toscanini as an orchestral conductor, and nine...

No American philosophy has as yet been produced,” complained Charles Sanders Peirce in 1866. “Since our country has become independent, Germany has produced the whole development of the Transcendental...

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Say the word prudence to the ancients, and you would have named a virtue. Say it to the faculties of American colleges in the nineteenth century, and you would...

While describing the Rawlsian-liberal idea of “the unencumbered self” and “the procedural republic” in Democracy’s Discontents (1994), political theorist Michael Sandel highlighted two individuals who represent the pro and...

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