G.T. Dempsey

G.T. Dempsey is a Research Associate in the history of Late Antiquity at the University of California at Davis and, as a retired American career diplomat, he is also a commentator on American foreign policy.
Cover of Michael Hannah's book "Extinctions:  Living and Dying in the Margin of Error".

Review | Extinctions: Living and Dying in the Margin of Error

G.T. Dempsey

This book sets out, in some nine chapters, both the ‘turbulent’ journey of that one species living 3.7 billion years ago to the 8.7 million today and the human activity threatening that biodiversity.

Cover of the book, "Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes."

Review | Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes

G.T. Dempsey

"Drought, Flood, Fire: How Climate Change Contributes to Catastrophes" is written by a scientist who understands how to meaningfully inform his non-scientist readers.  

Book cover for James Campbell's Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin

Review | Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin

G.T. Dempsey

Talking at the Gates by James Campbell is a biography of James Baldwin, one of the most influential American writers of the twentieth century.

Book cover for Under the Wave a Waimea

Review | Under the Wave at Waimea

G.T. Dempsey

Set in Hawaii and with a champion surfer as its central character, "Under the Wave at Waimea" introduces us to the global geography of surfing.

Book cover for "Lure of the Beach"

Review | Lure of the Beach: A Global History

G.T. Dempsey

Robert C. Ritchie guides readers through a comprehensive history of mankind’s love affair with the beach.