Book Review: “The Amateur American”, by J. Saunders Elmore
Three Rivers Press, 2009
ISBN 978-0-307-45287-0
Trade paperback, $15.00
303 pages
Reviewed by D. L. Parker

I don’t like to quote other reviews about a book even if I think my fellow reviewers are wrong. That’s because there is really no wrong in a review. A review should be, purely and simply, one person’s honest and personal reaction to a book. Unless the reviewer sets out to maliciously slander─or, More...

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