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Non-Fiction Reviews
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
January 15, 2025This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
January 13, 2025Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
January 13, 2025Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
January 13, 2025The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
January 9, 2025Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
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Books
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
December 13, 2024He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
September 26, 2024It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
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Russia
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
August 14, 2024O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
August 9, 2024Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
August 7, 2024David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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