Stories By Sam Stowe
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History
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
May 24, 2022Americans would be well advised to learn about Iran’s culture and tragic recent history before our...
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History
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 24, 2022With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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Biography
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 21, 2022The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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Biography
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
May 19, 2022Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Biography
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
May 19, 2022Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
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Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
May 18, 2022Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
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Great Britain
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
October 17, 2021Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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Fiction Reviews
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
October 16, 2021Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.
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History
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
September 8, 2020This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
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History
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
September 1, 2020J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...
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