Stories By Sam Stowe
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Non-Fiction Reviews
In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
October 11, 2023Americans 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
October 11, 2023With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
October 7, 2023The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
October 6, 2023Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
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Business
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
October 5, 2023Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Fiction Reviews
The Italian Secretary: A Further Adventure Of Sherlock Holmes by Caleb Carr
October 4, 2023Those writers whom the gods would destroy, they first tempt into trying to imitate another writer...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
April 12, 2023Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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Fiction Reviews
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
April 11, 2023Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The New York Times Complete Civil War 1861-1865
November 12, 2022This collection of the Times' news coverage during the war is a must-have for Civil War...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Big Policeman by J. North Conway
November 7, 2022J. North Conway's new account of the law enforcement career of Thomas Byrnes, The Big Policeman,...