Very useful book to better understand our political issues. It is a bit dated, but the concepts haven't changed just the individuals and stories he tells about. If nothing else, read chapters 1 and 2. At least skim chapter 1 (make sure you know who Carroll Quigley is and what he believes and says, and recognize Allen's discussion about academics and the mass media - now called main-stream media, or legacy media).
Chapt 2:
I will point out one misleading item on Chart 3 (in my copy it's on p 34) - our particular constitutional republic chose to put state govts sort of at a higher level than the federal govt.
Charts 1 and 2 are critical - chart 1, as taught in schools, assumed by the legacy media, and believed by most people, makes no sense - varying levels of socialistic tendencies are put on a left-right spectrum with democracy (a socialist form of govt called mob rule, or called by Thomas Jefferson the worst of all possible forms of government) in the center. Just because in the 1940s two dictatorships used the names communism (intended to be an international socialism)and Nazism (in English that would be national socialism), and were enemies, and we're suposed to think they are opposites? No, they were opponents because both groups wanted to be the only world dictator.
Chart 2 shows a logical left-right spectrum:
On the left you have total government to varying degrees, such as Communism, Fascism (Nazi), Fabianism (some form of democracy/mob rule), and he lists some show more historical dictatorships as well; some of these are more complete dictatorships than others, due to inclination, technology, etc.
On the far right you have no govt (differing degrees of anarchy).
Note that left would be total govt, right would be no govt. On the right, between Center and Anarchy (far right) would be varying degrees of limited government, such as the constitutional republic given to us by our US Constitution. Some of the changes to it tend to moves us further right (abolition to slavery), others further left towards totalitarianism (the changes to our representatives - no longer known by each constituent; and senators - one less check because now chosen directly by the people instead of the state govt).

Chap 3-7:
Explain how our move towards socialism has occurred, and since the book was written, a lot more has happened.

Chap 8:
Skim this chapter. It's dated, but the 14 signposts leading to slavery (total govt) are important - read pp 131-133 a little more carefully and think about how many of these have been implemented since this book.

One last point - his title is a play on an earlier book by John A Stormer, None Dare Call It Treason, long since out of date (1964). This book by Allen came out in '71. Then Stormer wrote a newer (way back in '84!) book for Christians who believe in limited govt: Growing Up God's Way. Then (in '89) he updated None Dare Call It Treason. Later yet ('98) he wrote None Dare Call It Education. So it looks like we missed the next decade update, and this decade's update is due. As far as I know, neither has happened. show less

The book is dated. And his economics is as good as any of his books. But he is not a fiction writer, so things can be a bit stilted, and the economic theory is forced into everything in the story.

Econ 101: One lesson followed by a lot of chapters explaining how that works with various topics. Chap 1 is the lesson, Chap 2 gives a single example, then the next chapters cover things such as public works, tariffs, parity pricing, price-fixing, rent controls, minimum wage laws, unions, inflation. Last chapter restates the lesson.
After finishing this slim book, look for Bettina B Greaves 2-vol "Free Market Economics" from FEE (The Foundation for Economic Education).
Relating this to politics is not covered in this volume, so I'll add that the typical left-right dichotomy you're used to makes no sense: Left is communism (aka Intl socialism), right is fascism (aka Nat'l socialism), center is democracy (or if you know a little more, it's called Fabian socialism). Trouble is the whole spectrum is socialism. If the whole spectrum is socialism, the spectrum is meaningless.
A real left wing-right wing spectrum would be: Far left is total govt (dictatorships such as communism, fascism, ceasarism, pharaohism, etc). Near that left is democracy (aka mob rule, or as Thomas Jefferson exaggerated, The worst of all possible forms of government - because it's a variant of dictatorship, just less noticeable) . Far right would be anarchy (different degrees). Near that right would be limited government, including the Constitutional Republic of places such as George Washington's USA, or the government of the Medes and Persians.
To grasp the meaning of this left-right issue better, read Gary show more Allen's first two chapters of None Dare Call It Conspiracy. show less

Very important information BUT ...

WARNING!!!
If you choose to follow any of this advice, be sure you have several very good lawyers! And enough money to pay their bills.

This is basically a graphic book of timelines for the Bible. Klassen believes God used patterns in timing (April 1: man created, Methuselah died, Noah removes cover of ark, tabernacle first set up, Jesus born, Jesus began preaching). He wasn't aware that there were no leap years for several years on either side of our BC-AD calendar: he believes Jesus was born 1 Apr 5 BC in a leap year.
This book is available in a much reduced format (so harder to read), bound inside an edition of Reese's Chronological Bible, plus Reese's shows his own and Klassen's dates all through his edition of the Bible.

Another chronological Bible divided into daily readings, and with sidebars and additional helps. This copy is NLT; I don't know if they produce it in other versions.

Another Chronological Bible (this one NKJV). [It says it was formerly titled The Life and Times Historical Reference Bible - I don't know if they differ.]
This one is not divided for yearly reading. It does have a lot of additional material - so basically a study Bible. Pages 1-3 cover information "Before the Patriarchs" followed by a short introduction to the book of Genesis. Pages 4 & 5 are most of Genesis 1, but about half of each page is sidebars covering other early cultures' beliefs about creation. Page 6 is similar, but at the bottom is an additional, but very short, sidebar. Page 7 has a small timeline from 26,000 to 8000 BC. Sidebars very in types of content. If you split this 1668 pages into 365 readings you would be reading a lot of material besides the text of the Bible, so I imagine it would take longer than the One Year Chronological, where Jan 1 took less than 10 minutes.
This Bible comes with a CD including the Logos Bible for your computer, the complete NKJV text and notes (sidebars). It also has a KJV with Strong's numbering system, plus additional books such as a Bible Dictionary, Atlas, Strong's Hebrew and Greek 'Dictionaries,' and other materials.

Another Chronological Bible, this one NIV (I don't know if available in other versions). For more on Chronological Bibles see my comments on Reese's Chronological. The difference between this and Reese's Chronological Bible or So That's Why Bible! is that this one has already been divided into daily readings so you can go through the whole Bible chronologically in 365 days (no Feb 29). with approximately the same length each day. [I just now read the Jan 1 (Gen 1-3) reading. I'm a fast reader, so I tried to read it in a slower, more formal way, and it took about 8 minutes - so I'm guessing it is intended to be around 10 minutes or so per day, if you JUST read, without studying). This version does not have extra study and commentary - just straight NIV.

This version incorporates Klassen's dating system to Reese's copy of the Bible ordered, in Reese's opinion, by the chronological order of the Biblical events, with dates from both men to show where they disagree. [There is another version that includes Klassen's book, The chronology of the Bible, shrunken down and bound as part of the Bible. There is also a version that is just by Reese, no Klassen included.]
Understand that there are several chronological Bibles available. This is because the Bible often does not give the date of certain events. For instance, does Genesis 1:1 come before or after John 1:1 - both occur "In the beginning." Does Job occur before or after Abraham? Before or after the Exodus? So I use several versions to get a better feel for how things fit together. In Reese's version you read Gen 25:2-4 (& I Chron 1:32-33) (Abraham's children by Keturah, after Sarah's death), then Gen 11:11 (the death in 1817 BC of Noah's son, Shem), then Gen 25:19-26 (the birth of Isaac's boys, Esau & Jacob in 1807 BC). So you see that Abraham lived while Shem was still alive and might have heard from him about the events surrounding the flood - but you can't see if he may have been too far away to have met.
My copy is KJV - I do not know if other versions are available.

Jay Green did an amazing job putting together the works he did. By providing the Strong's number (used by James Strong in his Strong's Concordance) interlinearly, and then republishing several of the old (public domain) materials after adding in the Strong's number to them, he made minor linguistic research of the Bible possible for the masses. Why did I say minor - because it is also easy to misconstrue facts by not knowing enough ("A little knowledge is a dangerous thing"). That is not the fault of the people who make such works available, but of the ones who use them without understanding enough.
As useful as all this work Green did/had done, I had to knock off a star because Green way over-extended himself. That is clear from the occasional omissions, errors, and such like. Personally, I don't understand how he did such a good job without the computers we all require today. But for someone working, much of the time alone, with such a multiplicity of materials, making mistakes was unavoidable (how many times have you seen a book with typos the modern spell-checker missed?), but by trying to do everything, there are additional mistakes made that would have been caught if he had had the time.
I have been using his materials since the mid-70s and find them so invaluable that I am able to work around the mistakes. I put the correct number in my copy, and continue on. The occasional typo is not a problem for me, but could mess somebody up if not prepared for them. The show more materials are well worth it, and the newer books with better work are not worth the extreme extra cost for someone on a budget. I have caught typos in them as well!
When I bought this, it was perfect for my needs. But my eyes are changing, and I wish now I had bought the four-volume set (much larger characters) instead of the one-volume set, because even with good light and a magnifier, especially on the Hebrew vowel pointing, this version can be difficult to read for me now, when it wasn't back in the 80s! show less

This book covers the Roman Calendar (before Julius Caesar changed to the new 'Julian' Calendar). So it covers from the 5th century BC to the 1st century BC. It took a lot of research to learn enough to put together something so carefully written. Since the calendar was in the hands of certain priests, they could, and did, sometimes accept bribes to change which day was which. Yet with all those complications and exceptions, she has been able to work out what the calendar was like during that time frame (especially in the first century BC).
This book would be aimed principally for scholars and others needing to check out some esoteric item to better understand something from history. For those of us with a hobby of calendrics and chronology, it is invaluable.
Archaeology and related fields do keep finding new materials, so there are a few things that she would change - or add - if writing this now, but most have just verified what she has said, or proven to be an additional exception.

Thiele did a lot of research to understand the dating of the Kings of Israel. I disagree with him occasionally for theological reasons. He would make changes if doing the book today, simply because more data is dug up all the time, or becomes available more generally (especially because of the internet). But what he published in 1982 was a summary of all that research into understanding the dates given in the Hebrew Bible for the kings of Israel and Judea.
To simplify, not all cultures use the same systems of dating. Did a king co-reign with his father? Because one source might say X occurred in his 3rd year, another source might call it his 11th year - talking about the same event, same year, but one source counting from his sole reign, the other from when he first began to co-reign. Howabout, is this year 1 or zero of King X? Do you use an inclusive count or an exclusive count. I'll give one example. To an American, a week is 7 days, 2 weeks is 14 days, 3 is 21 days, etc. To the Hispanic, the week is 8 days, 2 weeks is 15 days, 3 weeks is 22 days. The American way is exclusive, the Hispanic is inclusive. They make as much sense, they're just different. Not knowing the difference can mess one up: Julius Caesar got his calendar from foreigners (Egypt & Greece). They said to have a leap year every four years (they were talking exclusive count). So Caesar told his fellow Latins to have leap year every four years - but they just assumed it was their inclusive count. That show more meant it was every three years in the exclusive method. So from something like about 15 BC to about AD 5 (I forget the exact dates, just giving it from memory, but included the whole time frame when Jesus might have been born) they had no leap years so they could get the calendar back in sync.
Thiele goes through the Biblical and archaeological evidence to find out which kings (or at least their recorders) used what system of dating. It turns out that what look like errors in dating of the kings (say, II Kings says he was king 17 years, II Chronicles says 18) aren't errors. The dates from the Bible work out very nicely if you understand the multiple systems in use, and fit nicely with the secular dates as well.
There are a couple places he chooses to decide there is an error in our current Bibles, either because of copyists errors in the manuscripts we've chosen to use, or, because we didn't and maybe still don't know about another system in use. show less

The authors assume they have come up with every possibility and logically answered them, leaving only one possibility. They actually do so accurately enough, but are so convinced they have covered all the bases that they come off sounding arrogant. While I agree that they come up with the correct answer, there are several places where someone could argue with their logic and therefore come up with a wrong answer.
Still, very useful book. If you've ever wondered which astronomical object the Star of Bethlehem was, read this before deciding you know.

I studied this on my own in high school. In college, talking with the advanced Greek teacher about some point, I picked up his Greek NT and began reading a passage. He stopped me, saying I was going too fast. Later I received permission to teach the book for one semester to some students. They came out of the class being able to use Greek better than the students who'd had three years (six semesters). They didn't know every parsing and declension, but they could follow the basic gist. So I recommend this to those who want a good introduction for general (Biblical) Greek usage. And it's also a good introduction for those who will go on to study Greek in more detail. Newer editions might be better.

This is one of a small handful of books from my childhood that I read every couple years. This book, along with the books by Geoffrey Trease, and to a lesser extent, Stephen Meader, are what changed my attitude about history (at that time it was the subject in school I disliked most).
In chapter 6, the day after Jerry and Mike's fight, Jerry describes how his sister Jill told their parents the truth in such a way that they assumed she was lying to exonerate her brothers, when in reality she had carefully engineered events to come out as she wanted, and be excused - I could just picture my sister. That kind of details that a kid could relate to made it a good read. And it made me want to learn more about the historical events (no internet available in those days).