Stories By Peter Bridges
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Biography
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
May 16, 2022Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
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Biography
Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
April 18, 2022He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Great Britain
Beyond the Hedgerows of Cornwall
December 29, 2021It is of all the Celtic kingdoms the greenest and most beautiful. Palms, wisteria, and camellias...
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Biography
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
October 28, 2021O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Biography
Horace Greeley: Champion of American Freedom byRobert C. Williams
October 24, 2021Horace Greeley is a familiar name, but how much do today’s Americans know about him? Most...
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History
Dissonance: The Turbulent Days Between Fort Sumter and Bull Run: by David Detzer
October 23, 2021David Detzer’s new book "Dissonance" completes his trilogy about those fateful weeks and months of 1861,...
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History
How the Cold War Began: The Igor Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
October 20, 2021Readers seeking to learn how the Cold War really began can bypass this book, since despite...
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Biography
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
August 25, 2021George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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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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