All posts tagged "twentieth century"
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Great Britain
After the Victorians by A.N. Wilson
August 1, 2024Like its predecessor, The Victorians, this book is a portrait of an age, rather than a...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis
June 17, 2024George Frost Kennan was one of the most influential of all American diplomats, as well as...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: René Blum and the Ballets Russes by Judith Chazin-Bennahum
April 29, 2024All of Blum’s many accomplishments were bracketed between the anti-Semitic turmoil of the Dreyfus Affair that...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women, 1847-1928 by Julie P. Gelardi
April 4, 2024Following this betrayal, the Romanov dynasty was swept off the stage of history. Many of the...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
March 7, 2024Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
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Italy
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
March 4, 2024Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America by Erika Lee and Judy Yung
February 29, 2024For those who fell in the “only” 7 percent category, the decision to deport them was...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
January 7, 2024James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
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Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
December 25, 2023Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
December 22, 2023She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
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