Stories By Peter Bridges
Nature
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 1, 2026This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
Politics
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
May 27, 2026In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
History
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
May 26, 2026What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 21, 2026The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 15, 2026This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
Italy
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
May 14, 2026Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
May 14, 2026Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 14, 2026The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
Biography
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 9, 2026Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 14, 2026He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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