Stories By Ed Voves
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Biography
Book Review: Jesus: A Biography from a Believer by Paul Johnson
July 9, 2020Jesus 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
July 4, 2020Giap 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
June 29, 2020If 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
June 19, 2020In 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
June 15, 2020The 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
June 14, 2020The “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
June 11, 2020And what a treasure trove! By the time of his death in 1951, Barnes had purchased...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
June 11, 2020It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Fiction Reviews
The Stranger by Max Frei
June 3, 2020The Stranger is a translation of the first of a wildly popular series of novels from...
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History
How Rome Fell by Adrian Goldsworthy
June 1, 2020Goldsworthy takes many of the reasons advanced by earlier scholars and shows them to be of...
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