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Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 3, 2026Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
July 31, 2026Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
July 13, 2026President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
July 11, 2026Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Iran
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
July 4, 2026The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
History
A Boy’s View of a World War
July 2, 2026The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
June 26, 2026Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
June 23, 2026My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Military
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
June 20, 2026Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
June 17, 2026I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
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