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The Orientalist: Solving The Mystery of A Strange and Dangerous Life – by Tom Reiss
May 21, 2022Admirers of a haunting gem of a novel called, ALI & NINO, a work that seemed...
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster by T.J. English
May 21, 2022The genius of the Irish who emigrated to the United States in the 19th and early...
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Never Come To Peace Again: Pontiac’s Uprising and the Fate of the British Empire in North America – by David Dixon
May 20, 2022Dixon’s approach is both refreshing and accurate. He eschews the required kowtowing associated with ethnic minorities.
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My Father Il Duce: A Memoir by Mussolini’s Son – by Romano Mussolini
May 20, 2022Benito Mussolini had more than one mistress but only one wife, whom he legally married five...
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Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War – by Rodric Braithwaite
May 19, 2022The 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
May 19, 2022Since 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
May 17, 2022Author 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
May 17, 2022There’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
May 17, 2022In 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
May 16, 2022Study of the American founding fathers has become a hothouse industry. The capacity of the American...