John Adams, The Forgotten Founding Father

Using the thousands of letters and journals, historian David McCullough has written a remarkable biography of John Adams, the intellectual backbone of the new United States of America.  Sandwiched between the presidencies of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, it easy to see how Adams came to be forgotten.  Adams’s humble beginnings should not cloud your […]

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I’ve been an admirer of the Renaissance period of art for as long as I can remember.  The two artistic masters that symbolize this period of “re-birth” are Leonardo Di Vinci and Michelangelo.  For Da Vinci, I’ve studied his works by going to the museums such as The Louvre to look at his most famous […]

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I had an eight year career in the legal field as a transactional law paralegal.  My career began in 2002, I wanted to go to law school.  As with any issue I always do my research.  After much thought I realized that: 1) I did not want to spend 3 years in a classroom, and […]

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I wanted to post about Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s latest book after my post on the 2008 financial crisis.  I thought it a perfect segue to the consequences of a lack of integration in dealing with the economy.  Politics and economics are a consequence of the ideas within a given culture.  Peikoff’s theory of DIM uses […]

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Whatever you heard about the financial crisis is false!  We’ve all heard the same tired reasons about why the real estate market and financial industry collapsed.  The most common meme is that the banking industry was deregulated so therefore  deregulation caused the crisis.  Former Chairman and CEO of BB&T John Allison has written a book […]

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Happy Birthday to BookishBabe.com.  It has been four years since I started this blog.  This has been a labor of love, and I am so happy with how successful it has become.  The fact that I receive over nine thousand visitors a month, from all over the world, shows the wide reach my blog has.  Even […]

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I’ve had a fascination with the life of Grace Kelly.  For one thing she was a world-renowned, Oscar winning actress.  But eventually gave it all up to marry Prince Rainier of Monaco.  A book that gives an inside look at the Grimaldi royal family.  Once Upon a Time: Behind the Fairy Tale of Princess Grace and […]

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It has been eleven years today since the terrorist attacks.  Every year around this time, I get more angry at the vague tributes from the media.  It’s important to remember that 3000 men, women, and children were murdered by Muslim terrorists.  These terrorists followed the irrational teachings of Islam.  They targeted New York City and […]

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I am your typical introvert.  I’m geared toward the left-brained variety.  In a previous post I reviewed a book about the trials of introverted children.  The focus was primarily on the American school system and its adoption of postmodern pedagogical methods that have made schooling for these type of children increasingly difficult. I just finished reading a […]

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I realized my last post was very negative.  In light of the Supreme Court’s unwillingness to uphold our freedom, I’m very concerned about the future of our country.  So rather than leave things on a negative footing, I have linked an article celebrating our nation’s success.  Via Gus Van Horn, this article written by Objectivist […]

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