Stories By Peter Bridges
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Great Britain
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
December 29, 2021It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
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Biography
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
October 28, 2021O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Biography
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
October 24, 2021Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
October 23, 2021David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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History
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
October 20, 2021Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
August 25, 2021George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
June 12, 2020Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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History
Journalism’s Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting by John Maxwell Hamilton
June 9, 2020Not 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!
May 25, 2020President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
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History
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
May 24, 2020Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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