Reviews for Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy - Philip Bobbitt - Pape...

The average rating for Democracy and Deterrence: The History and Future of Nuclear Strategy - Philip Bobbitt - Pape... based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-03-15 00:00:00 Jason Antunez While there were many interesting tidbits in the book, I think he spent too much time focusing on politics. He also put in a lot of quotes that seemed unnecessary. All of the information in the presidential section was quotes. He was also uneven. Most people got short entries but Civil War generals got entire columns.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-12-14 00:00:00 Krisztian Kiss This book is full of tidbits about people, places, and events in American History. As a history major, I recognized most of the the 1001 items discussed, but there were a few of which I had never heard. For instance, I had never heard of many of the women pioneers that were listed. I think that the reason for this is that women's studies in the past have been overlooked in many history textbooks. Also, there was the Argonne-Meuse Campaign of World War I, of which I had never studied. Again, World War I is often somewhat neglected in our history books. Working in a bookstore, as I do, I know how few books are written on the subject of World War I. While the Civil War might have a whole bookcase devoted to it, and World War II might have two whole bookcases, there might only be two shelves dedicated to the subject of World War I. The Korean War is another area that is often neglected. This book was written in 1989, and does a fairly good job of covering events in American History up to that time. If anything was neglected in this book, I might have to say it was the Civil Rights Movement. I just didn't see a lot on that subject. However, I felt that this was a very informative and interesting book. Each fact was short enough to catch your attention and make you want to go research the subjects that you didn't know about.