Stories By Peter Bridges
Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
December 9, 2025Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...

History
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
October 19, 2025George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
April 8, 2025Never 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
April 7, 2025Not 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!
March 20, 2025President-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
March 17, 2025Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
March 10, 2025The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Boy’s View of a World War
March 7, 2025The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
Mythology
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...





