Bestselling author David R. Stokes shares an assortment of powerful essays in IN THE ARENA: Reflections on Culture, History, Politics, and Faith. Foreword by Dr. Gerald W. Stokes. From the War on Terror, to the Cold War, to great moments in sports, to presidential politics, to Vladimir Putin, Stokes offers insightful analysis on an eclectic list of subjects. Chapter titles include: "The Iron Lady and Islamism," "Ike Warned Us About Much More than the Military Industrial Complex," "Yankee Stadium's Best Night," "A Joke Too Far," "Franklin Roosevelt Loved to Hate Herbert Hoover," "Mr. Reagan and the Boys," "The Amazing Colossal President," and "Martin Luther King--The Preacher," and more than forty others.