Stories By Peter Bridges
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History
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
June 11, 2022In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
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Italy
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
June 10, 2022In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
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Italy
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
June 10, 2022This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
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Economics
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
June 5, 2022In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
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Biography
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
June 3, 2022What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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History
The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
May 29, 2022The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
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Biography
Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
May 21, 2022This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
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Biography
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
May 20, 2022Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
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Biography
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
May 20, 2022Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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History
Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 19, 2022The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...