James D. Best

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Book 2 in the American Exceptionalism Series Maelstrom, A Civil War Novel Ebook, Hardcover, and paperback “I enjoyed this.”  Harold Holzer, ...

  This post deals with two books on the “Lost Cause.” Thomas J. DiLorenzo presents the case for the Lost Cause in The Real Lincoln: A New ...

A lot happened between July 9th and the 12th in 1864. Marc Leepson has made this short period of the Civil War the focus of his book Despera...

Lord Charnwood published Abraham Lincoln in 1916. In order to get a clearer perspective of the Civil War, it helps to read books from multip...

This is a fun memoir of a modern-day search for the real Abraham Lincoln. In childhood, Andrew Ferguson had been a Lincoln buff but had dev...

February, 27, 1860 The Shut Mouth Society is a contemporary thriller about a conspiracy that goes back to Abraham Lincoln. The nove...

The Shut Mouth Society  by   James D. Best is the kind of book I like best. It starts with a rich collector who has discovered an earl...

Prior to championing a Bill of Rights in the First Congress, James Madison wrote a revealing letter to Thomas Jefferson in October of 1788...

For a long time, I've wanted to change the cover of The Shut Mouth Society . Although the story has strong historical elements, it...

I received an email note from a student asking for help on a book report on The Shut Mouth Society . Here are the questions and my responses...

In early 1860, Abraham Lincoln was a little known regional politician from Springfield, Illinois. The Republican Party was new, and had...

I'm pleased to have been invited to participate in the Kentucky Book Fair. http://kybookfair.org/ The central purpose of the Kentucky Bo...