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Monday, August 28, 2023

American Rule by Jared Yates Sexton

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Sexton has called this book an alternate history of America, one which accepts white supremacy and its myths of exceptionalism as its throug...
Monday, August 21, 2023

The Whirlwind of War: Voices of the Storm, 1861-1865 by Stephen B. Oates

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, August 14, 2023

The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

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A remarkable manuscript, documenting the reality of the Russian gulags and the system that supported them in the years after the Bolshevik R...
Monday, August 7, 2023

Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency by John C. Waugh

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, July 31, 2023

Platte River by Rick Bass

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Three stories or novellas from one of my favored authors that, unfortunately, left little impression on me. Here’s the description from the ...
Monday, July 24, 2023

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov

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This post was originally published on a now-retired blog that I maintained from roughly 2005 to 2013. As a result, there may be some referen...
Monday, July 17, 2023

1876 by Gore Vidal

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Since this is a piece of historical fiction, ostensibly about the butchered U.S. presidential election in 1876, this fictional exchange is b...