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Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward – by Charlyne Berens
January 9, 2025Some less than exhaustive research suggests that this book is a first: a campaign biography published...
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Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson: The Politics of Enlightenment and the American Founding
January 9, 2025Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...
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The Last Victorian: John Buchan and the Hannay Quartet
December 25, 2024But, even more importantly, he also struck the first modern note in the evolution of the...
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Book Review: Mike Wallace, A Life by Peter Rader
December 13, 2024He suffered, too, the tragic loss of his oldest child, Peter, who disappeared while backpacking across...
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Nothin’ Short of Dyin’ Half as Lonesome as the Sound
December 1, 2024The last time I saw Johnny Cash was the first time I saw Johnny Cash –...
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Book Review: Diaries by George Orwell
November 20, 2024Europe had yet to recover from the First World War and the Allied peoples were at...
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Cassady, Kerouac and Ginsberg
November 10, 2024The time between New Year’s 1956 and April 1958 was a period of general uncertainty and...
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Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
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Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
October 21, 2024Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
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Charlie Chan: A Hero of Sorts
October 17, 2024An ethnic image is tricky, full of half-truths and snapshot attributes. In the Chan mysteries, there...