All posts tagged "nineteenth century"
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Believers and Infidels
October 25, 2023For the first time there was a feeling that technologically, economically and politically, as well as...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
October 22, 2023What is heartening is that, as Professor Michael Vorenberg stresses in his essay, Lincoln’s thinking about...
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History
Wade Hampton: Confederate Warrior, Conservative Statesman by Walter Brian Cisco
October 15, 2023Biography, if it serves the reader, is best written not only with the exploits of the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Uncivil War: Irregular Warfare in the Upper South 1861-1865 by Robert R. Mackey
October 15, 2023Army Major Robert R. Mackey, currently assigned to the Pentagon, has written a much-needed study of...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
October 5, 2023Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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Biography
James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
October 4, 2023Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
October 3, 2023In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...
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Historical Fiction
Book Review: Harriet by Elizabeth Jenkins
September 18, 2023Her measured and elegant style does indeed evoke Austen, and the grace of the writing makes...
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