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Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
January 13, 2025The 19th century Russian poet Fyodor Tyutchev wrote mystically that “Russia is not to be understood...
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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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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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How Israel Lost: The Four Questions
January 10, 2025There’s an old saying among the Jews that goes something along the lines of: we don’t...
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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,...
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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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Book Review: The Second World War by Antony Beevor
December 15, 2024Hitler’s Final Solution was not a separate campaign of mass murder, parallel to the fighting on...
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Book Review: The Chinatown War: Chinese Los Angeles and the Massacre of 1871 by Scott Zesch
November 21, 2024As the 1860's ended, the steadily growing numbers of Chinese immigrants led to fears that eventually...
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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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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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