All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
August 14, 2024O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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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
August 3, 2024Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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Theatre
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
March 12, 2024Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
March 5, 2024Nevertheless, it is a considerable shock to read indictments of Washington in the letters of Patriot...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
March 4, 2024Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
February 12, 2024Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
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History
Empire of Liberty A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 by Gordon S. Wood
January 1, 2024The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
December 6, 2023It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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Art
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
December 5, 2023A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
November 30, 2023Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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