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Recovering the Past: A Historian’s Memoir by Forrest McDonald
January 16, 2025McDonald’s memoir is very good because Professor McDonald writes for those of us who delight in...
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Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa: From Vermont to Italy in the Footsteps of George Perkins Marsh – by John Elder
January 15, 2025This is a beautiful book. The author is a professor of English at Middlebury College whose...
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
January 14, 2025The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
January 14, 2025Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream – by Barack Obama
January 13, 2025Senator Barack Obama, it seems, has far to go. As this is written, he is continuing...
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My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
January 13, 2025Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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Meet You in Hell: Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick and the Bitter Partnership That Transformed America
January 12, 2025Since our society began its retreat into Social Darwinism tricked out in the guise of laissez-faire...
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The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness – by Jack El-Hai
January 11, 2025Walter Jackson Freeman was a man gifted with energy, optimism and an ice pick.
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James K. Polk by John Seigenthaler
January 10, 2025Author John Seigenthaler has written an interesting and informative biography of the eleventh president of the...
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Henry Adams and the Making of America by Garry Wills
January 9, 2025In Adams, Wills has chosen a slippery, famously evasive subject. Henry Adams (1838-1918) was an eccentric,...