Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
by Robert C. Cheeks
April 24th, 2007
McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in history; he does not write for his colleagues.
McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in history; he does not write for his colleagues.
This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose writing has centered on our natural environment.
The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries was to fuse both political clout and criminal enterprise into vast, urban political machines that helped uplift the Irish and create a place for them at the table of American bounty.
Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed to materialize from nowhere when it was reprinted in 1999, were excited to learn that finally, finally! there is definitive information about its mysterious author.
Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing to take steps toward running for President in 2008.
Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five years after the birth of their first child, Edda.
Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire economics, those of us who enjoy our economic history red in tooth and claw have the guilty pleasure of reading about business scandals.
Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the United States, James Knox Polk.
In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric, morbidly private little man.
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