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Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
May 17, 2022In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Here, There and Everywhere: My Life Recording the Music of The Beatles
May 16, 2022Oh, no—the cry is almost involuntary—not another Beatles book! What more could anyone possibly say? The...
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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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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
May 16, 2022Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
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The Essential Grizzly – The Mingled Fates of Men and Bears – by Doug Peacock and Andrea Peacock
May 15, 2022The style of this book is intriguing. Doug has written several short stories, called Portraits, based...
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Book Review: The Poems of Jesus Christ Translated by Willis Barnstone
May 12, 2022As Barnstone notes in his introduction, Aramaic has verse forms that are difficult to render in...
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Book Review: Naples Declared: A Walk Around The Bay by Benjamin Taylor
May 6, 2022Considering how “casual” the work is in its approach, you could, I suppose, call it a...
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The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
May 1, 2022But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
April 21, 2022Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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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...