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Non-Fiction Reviews
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
August 5, 2024Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
June 17, 2024George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
December 29, 2023Never 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
December 27, 2023Not 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!
December 10, 2023President-elect Obama said in his radio address on Saturday, January 10, that “We’ll put nearly 400,000...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Tried by War: Abraham Lincoln as Commander in Chief by James M. McPherson
December 8, 2023Lincoln came to the Presidency without any real military experience. He had been an Illinois militia...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Engaging, Not Confronting, Russia
December 1, 2023The West would exacerbate rather than ease this problem if it brought Georgia into NATO. Nor...
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Military
A Boy’s View of a World War
November 28, 2023The three Libby’s men were the first American businessmen to receive Allied permits to travel to...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
November 22, 2023Some 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
November 19, 2023My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
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