11.17.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Rawhide Down: The Near Assassination of Ronald Reagan by Del Quentin Wilber

I remember well the moment I heard that President Ronald Reagan had been shot in...

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11.11.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | 1983: Reagan, Andropov, and a World on the Brink by Taylor Downing

This is a true story of how the world escaped nuclear devastation in 1983. I...

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7.7.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Coming of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

One significant question concerning the rise of Adolph Hitler is how did the Nazi’s rise...

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6.30.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll

This is not a read for the faint of heart. Why read a book like...

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6.9.2025 | Pastor Andrew Zakhari

Small Books, Big Impact

Most people wish they devoted more time to reading, but finding time to read is...

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5.21.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild & Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Let me encourage you to read both books together. King Leopold’s Ghost is a non-fiction...

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5.12.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Hitler’s People: The Faces of the Third Reich by Richard J. Evans

Over the past decades, I have heard politicians compare their opponents to other despots, authoritarian...

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5.5.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Checkpoint Charlie: The Cold War, the Berlin Wall, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth by Iain MacGregor

Here is the backstory: After World War II, Berlin was a divided city that lay...

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4.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa

For three hundred years, the Romanov Dynasty ruled the Russian Empire. Tsuyoshi Hasegawa traces the...

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3.25.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | The Narnia Code: C.S. Lewis and the Secret of the Seven Heavens by Michael Ward

If you have never read C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia please stop reading this review...

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3.17.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution By Simon Schama

One of the reasons to read history is to help us place our present situation...

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3.3.2025 | Pastor Tracy Troxel

Pastor Tracy Reads | Parkland by Vincent Bugliosi

My father told me often that 1963 marked the serious decline of the United States...

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