Stories By Peter Bridges
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Non-Fiction Reviews
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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Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
August 5, 2024Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Books
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
June 17, 2024George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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History
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
December 27, 2023Not all of the foreign correspondents for American papers were themselves American. Karl Marx contributed almost...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear President-Elect Obama, We Need Trains, Too!
December 10, 2023President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Iran
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
December 1, 2023The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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