Stories By Peter Bridges
History
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
February 6, 2025Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
History
Notes From Italy: Cimitero Acattolico
February 6, 2025In 1738 came the first burial by the Pyramid that we know of, that of a...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Dawn in the Suburra
February 4, 2025In early June, the best time in Rome is dawn. A little after first light the...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Sunday With the CAI
February 3, 2025This is not Labrador. We are fifty miles northeast of Rome and a mile above sea...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Dear Minister, America is Headed Down; Can It Reverse Course?
January 30, 2025In my view, the Americans’ most serious problem for the longer term is the development of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
January 28, 2025What 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
January 21, 2025The title of Fisk’s new work is a mocking one, taken from a campaign medal his...
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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
January 15, 2025This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
January 13, 2025Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
Biography
My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
January 13, 2025Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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