Dayton: The Rise, Decline, and Transition of an Industrial City (Ohio State University Press, 2019) By Adam Millsap I don’t talk a lot about my hometown of Dayton, Ohio. It’s an older rustbelt city in…
The King of Confidence (2020, Little Brown and Company) By Miles Harvey One of the stranger successors to the leadership of the Mormon church was a man known as James Strang. He was a later…
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (2017) By James C. Scott Fascinating book by anthropologist Dr. James C. Scott on the rise of city states, farming and empires. The author attempts…
