GoodReads Book Reviews by J.L. Askew

The Last Politician

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America’s Soul

And There Was Light: Abraham Lincoln and The American Struggle

Poverty, by America

The Zealot and the Emancipator: John Brown, Abraham Lincoln, and the Struggle for American Freedom

Lincoln and the Fight For Peace

America’s Good Terrorist: John Brown and the Harper’s Ferry Raid

Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West

Nothing to Lose: A J.P. Beaumont Novel

The Dog Stars

Shadows Reel (A Joe Pickett Novel)

Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer’s Enduring Message To America

His Name is George Floyd: One Man’s Life and Struggle For Racial Justice

The Librarian Spy: A Novel of World War II

Five Lectures on the American Civil War

It Wasn’t About Slavery: Exposing the Great Lie of the Civil War

The Silent Patient

Life Flight

Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

Saved and Sure, Safe and Secure: The Eternal Security of the Believer

The Secret of St. Andrews

The Sultana Tragedy: America’s Greatest Maritime Disaster

When the Yankee’s Came: Former South Carolina Slaves Remember Sherman’s Invasion (Voices From the Dust)

Ferguson’s (Beauregard’s) SC Artillery Company

Forrest Stories: Humor of Bedford Forrest and His Cavalry

It’s Not About the Sex: True Stories of Human Trafficking

Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest

The Secret Six: John Brown and the Abolitionist Movement

In It Together: The Beautiful Struggle Uniting Us All

Philadelphia and Points South: Short Stories

Stable: Someone is Taking Them

Immersion: A Writer's Guide to Going Deep