What is on My Desk | Timon's Opus

This post provides an opportunity to highlight some important articles and websites. The next book?review?will? I post?covers The Western Cannon: The Books and Schools of Ages by Harold Bloom.??? Dr.?Bloom?is a Professor?of?Humanities and English at Yale University. The plan is to finish reading the book this week.

The latest edition of The New Criterion ?has?several interesting articles. James Tartakovksy?s James Wilson remembered? provides an intriguing examination of this forgotten founding father.? Historians remember Wilson for his?tenure as a?lawyer, judge and defender of the?American Constitution.

Wilson?s perspective?regarding the role of government?is in contrast with Thomas Jefferson.? According to Wilson, ?Legislation promoting ?arts, philosophy, virtue and religion is not a government imposing moral goodness?on citizens; it is the people blessing themselves.?

Forging The Special Relationship by Andrew Roberts chronicles the relationship?between America and?Great Britain?during?Theodore Roosevelt?s presidency.? Winston Churchill?developed the phrase ?The Special Relationship.??This phrase describes the exceptionally close cultural and historic?interaction between America and England.? The?article examines how?President Roosevelt and?British Prime Minster Robert Gasconyne-Cecil?strengthen this?relationship.

?The July/August edition of Commentary?? cover article features?the Obama administration?s?foreign policy agenda in? The Obama Doctrine Defined.?? However, Philip Terzian?s book review of Manning Marable?s?Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention?caught my attention. Marable served as professor of African-American studies?at Columbia University before his death.? And the War Came?is Algis?Valiunas? effort to refute?popular myths regarding the?reasons for?the Civil War.? From Valiunas? perspective, slavery served as the catalyst for the Civil War. He cites a variety?of sources from speeches?to new paper articles to support his position.

Recently, I discovered NPR?s You Must Read This??.? I will definitely return to this website in the future. The New Yorker?s Book Bench?is another influential website I will?have use as a resource.? Both websites have?recommendations regarding books and provide more websites regarding literature.

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