Stories By Peter Bridges
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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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Iran
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
May 19, 2020The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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Biography
A Boy’s View of a World War
May 18, 2020The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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History
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
May 13, 2020Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
May 11, 2020My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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Africa
Notes From Italy: Villains, Romance, and Views
May 10, 2020Filettino was not always a happy place, in history or in fiction. In the time of...
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Italy
Notes from Italy: Getting into the Mountains
May 8, 2020I did not know that Neanderthals once lived hereabouts; that farmers first settled here six thousand...
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