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January 23, 2025Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...
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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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The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West by Niall Ferguson
January 21, 2025Niall Ferguson is hot—about as hot as a historian can get.
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Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
January 21, 2025Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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I, Wabenzi: A Souvenir – by Rafi Zabor
January 21, 2025Although this is a sly, sidelong-glance kind of book that repeatedly takes you to a different...
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The Union: England, Scotland And the Treaty of 1707 – by Michael Fry
January 21, 2025The story of modern Britain – at least one of the stories – begins some three...
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The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
January 21, 2025Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
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The Truth About Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What To Do About It – by Marcia Angell
January 21, 2025When AstraZeneca was on the verge of losing its patent to manufacture exclusively the $6 billion...
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The Translation of Dr. Apelles: A Love Story – by David Treuer
January 21, 2025The novel’s postmodernism is not its strongest or even its most salient feature; and comparing the...
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The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions by Howard Frank Mosher
January 20, 2025Enter Howard Frank Mosher and his delightfully picaresque novel THE TRUE ACCOUNT – A Novel of...
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The Conservative Bookshelf by Chilton Williamson, Jr.
January 20, 2025There is a small cadre of American writers whose gifts and talents are so significant that...
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The Trade – By Shirley Palmer
January 20, 2025Matt Lowell is a character straight out of central casting for the Lifetime Network. He’s a...
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Stories From the Haunted South – by Alan Brown
January 20, 2025An old Cornish prayer that has become part of the American lexicon goes, “From goulies and...
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The Taking – by Dean Koontz
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Stewball – by Peter Bowen
January 18, 2025I’ll begin by saying that I enjoyed immensely the first seven or eight novels in Peter...
Fiction Reviews
Temping – by Kirby Olson
January 18, 2025Milhouse Moot, the narrator of Kirby Olson’s autobiographical comic-allegorical novel, is severely depersonalized, rendering the story...
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The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic – by Chalmers Johnson
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January 18, 2025For Philadelphians over a certain age, the year 1964 evokes bitter memories of a Phillies team...
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In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran – by Christopher de Bellaigue
January 18, 2025Americans would be well advised to learn about Iran’s culture and tragic recent history before our...
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