All posts tagged "1930s"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia by Tim Tsouliadis
November 29, 2023Readers of faint heart beware when embarking upon this superb work of history. So many stories...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
November 24, 2023They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
November 18, 2023Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Looking Back at Mussolini
November 3, 2023Mussolini was not the only dictator of his time. In his Europe, in a time of...
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History
Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
August 9, 2023Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Germany
100 Greatest Gangster Films: M, #45
June 24, 2023A child murderer is terrorizing the city. The police hunt is intense, but fruitless. So the...
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Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Untouchables, #28
May 10, 2023In the midst of a dinner party in his honor, Capone (Robert De Niro) takes out...
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Movies
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Public Enemy, #23
May 3, 2023Cagney, along with Edward G. Robinson, Paul Muni and, later, Humphrey Bogart, invented the film gangster....
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100 Greatest Gangster Films
100 Greatest Gangster Films: Dillinger, #83
March 16, 2023Dillinger is a B-movie and doesn’t attempt to be more than that. There is not a...
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Art & Design
Art Review: Avant-Garde Art in Everyday Life, Art Institute of Chicago
December 26, 2022Stasis, whether in art, life, economics or political culture, was distasteful and to be done away...
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