I always feel comfortable with a book acclaimed by a wide and distinguished range of reviewers, particularly if it draws from documented historical evidence easy to confirm as accurate if not "the unassailable truth."

The Once and Future King is as analytical as the NRA Guide to Firearms Assembly which is instructive of how things are made and work, and not to make you feel good and become the darling of the late-night shows.

Me a neo-communist? C'mon. I still feel like a Baptist boy with some of the rough edges knocked off. My existence parallels Stalin's heinous repression, no attraction for me.