Stories By Ed Voves
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History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 24, 2022In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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Movies
Book Review: The Songs of Hollywood by Philip Furia and Laurie Patterson
September 20, 2022For the next few years, Hollywood musicals, climaxing in 42nd Street (1933), would be "backstage" pictures....
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Biography
Book Review: Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
September 17, 2022Beginning around 1800, the hunt started to find the “real” Shakespeare, the noble visionary who had...
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Biography
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
September 12, 2022Jesus of Nazareth started to preach and heal the sick when he “was beginning about the...
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France
Book Review: Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War by Ted Morgan
September 4, 2022Giap had lost several family members to the rigors of French colonial rule, including his wife...
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Art
Art Review: Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris at the Philadelphia Museum Of Art
August 31, 2022If Salon Cubism pleased nobody in 1912, the recreation of the gallery from the Salon d'Automne...
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History
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
August 18, 2022In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
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Art
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
August 13, 2022The people of that ancient nation had been decimated in the opening genocide of modern times,...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 12, 2022The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Architecture
The Barnes Foundation: Beauty Surrounded by Controversy
August 8, 2022And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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