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‘Look’ Review: The Big Picture
Via: Vic Eldred
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America’s great glossy magazines were once at the pulsing heart of popular culture. Millions of readers devoured their copies of Life, Look, the Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, the New Yorker,...
‘Ends of War’ Review: The Myth of Appomattox
Via: Vic Eldred
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When Robert E. Lee surrendered his battered Confederate army to Ulysses S. Grant at Virginia’s Appomattox Court House on Palm Sunday, April 9, 1865, the flames fanning the Civil War were...
‘The Dying Citizen’ Review: Keystone of the Republic
Via: Vic Eldred
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In his 2001 book “Carnage and Culture,” Victor Davis Hanson sought to explain the West’s military superiority over the previous 2,500 years, from the democratic city-states of ancient Greece to...
‘Rescuing Socrates’ Review: Great Books, Greatly Missed
Via: Vic Eldred
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In 1985, when Roosevelt Montás first arrived in New York, he was an 11-year-old Dominican “with a head full of lice and a belly full of tropical parasites.” By his own account, he didn’t seem...
‘The Young H.G. Wells’ Review: The Original Futurist
Via: Vic Eldred
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Does anyone read H.G. Wells anymore? The question has been asked periodically since his death in 1946, and the answer is invariably a qualified yes. Of Wells’s more than 100 books, his best known...
The History is already being written (Part 2: The Mueller investigation)
By: Vic Eldred
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5 years ago
The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book Rigged:"Mueller is a great selection. Impeccable credentials. Should be widely accepted," Representative Jason Chaffetz, the Republican head...
The history is already being written (Part I)
By: Vic Eldred
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5 years ago
The following is an excerpt from Mollie Hemingway's book "Rigged." I regard this as the first definitive history of the Russia Collusion hoaxFrom Chapter 2: Taking on the Establishment.When Hillary...
‘Oscar Wilde’ Review: Portrait of the Artist in Full
Via: Vic Eldred
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In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits...