Jens Heycke
REVIEWS - Death, Taxes, and Turduckens
"A gripping and well-researched history....Heycke wonderfully crafts the narrative as a terrific example of thrilling narrative nonfiction." —Kirkus Reviews
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"A shocking account of theft on a scale that shows reality can be stranger than fiction... in an always surprising, sometimes thrilling package. The way Heycke describes things certainly means there's no danger of a tax-based topic seeming dry or boring." — Independent Book Review
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​"A top-notch tale... meticulously documented... Heycke skillfully builds the story with lively details....A remarkable story of scheming and double-cross that makes accessible—and sometimes downright amusing—the mind-numbing world of tax shelters and forensic accounting."—BlueInk Review​
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GOLD AWARD WINNER
"A masterful piece of nonfiction that reads like a thriller but delivers the depth of first-rate investigative journalism... a five-star exposé that peels back the layers of one of the world's most astonishing financial scandals."
—Nonfiction Book Awards Review Panel
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"What might sound like dry financial history unfolds, in Heycke's hands, as striking investigative drama... at once educational and absorbing." — BookLife Reviews (Publishers Weekly)
REVIEWS - Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire
"Heycke's contribution stands out from other critiques of multiculturalism...He is an engaging storyteller, one whose prose is highly accessible. And, in avoiding the cantankerous posture that marks much of the literature critical of multiculturalism, his book has the potential to reach readers in a way that other similarly-themed books cannot." —Prof. Arjun Tremblay, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development.
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"Heycke's book should be on college reading lists for journalism, sociology, and economics courses that focus on ethnic diversity...His personal, almost intimate prose style pulled this reader into his world in a way that social science nonfiction rarely does. I'm so glad I read his book...It's an excellent text of applied cultural studies, but much more than that, it's a riveting, even haunting book of synthesis." — Garett Jones, Professor of Economics, George Mason University, The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy.
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​​​​"Heycke has visited 40 different countries as part of his research. The book is a product of thorough on-the-ground reporting. Heycke spent a year writing a nine-page chapter on the Aztecs in present-day Mexico because he wanted to get to the bottom of the primary sources." —Flemming Rose, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute, Frihedsbrevet.
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"Heycke provides a much-needed, meticulously researched—and courageous—defense of the melting pot from classical antiquity to 21st-century America. " — Victor Davis Hanson, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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"No one who reads Heycke's book can say he wasn't warned." —Jorge González-Gallarza, City Journal.
"Out of the Melting Pot offers fascinating historical and recent examples of successful - and unsuccessful - multi-ethnic societies. We would do well to heed its warnings." —Graeme Kemp, The Equiano Project.
"Heycke offers many fascinating examples to prove his point regarding assimilation, from the Balkans to Rwanda to Sri Lanka. All of them strengthen the argument that the less a society retains a shared sense of identity that transcends racial or cultural markers, the less stable and more vulnerable that society will become." —Casey Chalk, Acton Institute, Law & Liberty.