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I cannot possibly claim to have a favorite book. What I can say is that I am shocked to learn how little most college students - yes, even they - know about history, that of our country and that of the western civilization to which we belong. How can one make a half-way intelligent choice in an election on which one's survival may depend without, for example, being able to identify Winston Churchill as was the case in a recent informal questionnaire that was distributed in New York? Our young people must read history, whether the biography of Lincoln, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Barbara Tuchman's The Guns of August, Mumford's The City in History, Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, DeToqueville's Democracy in America, and on and on. The more you read, the more the fascination grows!

Reviewed by Belva P., Author

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