Daniel J. Mount
Daniel J. Mount
This book contains little about Donald Trump’s personal faith and worldview. The author, Stephen Strang, believes there’s not much to say on the topic: “My aim in taking on this project has not been to write Donald Trump’s spiritual biography—that would have been a very short book” (page 169). Whether or not intentional, this remark parallels…
David Greenberg’s Calvin Coolidge is a short, approachable biography that strikes an almost perfect balance between rigorous scholarship and readability. The main narrative runs only 159 pages, showing a brevity appropriate for its taciturn subject. Of ten chapters, the first deals with his life pre-politics, the second with his political rise, and the final chapter with…
Last week, as the world was awaiting the results of the Roman Catholic papal conclave, President Obama weighed in on the sort of Pope he hoped would be selected. The New York Times quoted him as saying: Mr. Obama said he hopes that whoever becomes pope will maintain what he called the “central message” of…
By now you’ve probably figured out that only someone who really likes to write would maintain the challenging pace of posts six days a week, every week. Some of you know that my writing interests extend beyond Southern Gospel. As a matter of fact, if I may be permitted a little self-promotion, my book on…