All posts tagged "American History"
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History
Book Review: At the Edge of the Precipice: Henry Clay and the Compromise that Saved the Union by Robert V. Remini
September 24, 2022In 1850, the best that Clay could do was to coax Southern politicians to agree to...
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History
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 17, 2022James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Fiction Reviews
The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
August 14, 2022Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
August 12, 2022The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Biography
Abraham Lincoln: A Life by Michael Burlingame
August 9, 2022Never perhaps has there been such a masterful account of the man’s failures—and successes—in this country’s...
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History
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
August 7, 2022It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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History
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship by James Scott
August 1, 2022The book reveals for the first time the extent of the outrage and widespread disbelief of...
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History
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
July 30, 2022This continued fighting retreat for allied forces persisted for the four bloody months from December 1941...
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Biography
Kentucky Clay, Eleven Generations of a Southern Dynasty by Katherine Bateman
July 20, 2022“In the South, stories are the effervescence of conversation, and no stories are more gripping to...
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History
Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1893: News Reports and Photos from Wisconsin Death Trip
July 18, 2022Tramps who were refused food at the home of John Ovenbeck in the town of Friendship,...
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