All posts tagged "eighteenth century"
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Biography
Jays, Films, and Georg Steller
October 28, 2021O’Brian based Aubrey on a Royal Navy captain of two centuries ago, Thomas Cochrane. Lord Cochrane’s...
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Great Britain
Battle for Europe: How the Duke of Marlborough Masterminded the Defeat of France at Blenheim by Charles Spencer
October 17, 2021Even the greatest deeds of brave men can be forgotten in the mists of time -...
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African American
Theater Review: A Free Man of Color Starring Jeffrey Wright
August 24, 2020Given the grandeur of its lofty aspirations, the play inevitably fails on some levels, like the...
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Biography
Book Review: Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
August 16, 2020Nevertheless, 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
August 15, 2020Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
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Art
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
July 24, 2020Yet 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
June 14, 2020The “Era of Good Feeling” that followed 1815, however, was of short duration. The issue of...
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Archeology
Dilettanti: The Antic and the Antique in Eighteenth-Century England by Bruce Redford
May 22, 2020A famous double portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds shows members of the Dilettanti Society sipping away...
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Biography
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
May 22, 2020It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
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Fiction Reviews
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
May 18, 2020Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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