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‘The French Revolution’ Review: Thomas Carlyle’s Masterpiece, Complete
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3 years ago
‘It all stands pretty fair in my head, nor do I mean to investigate much more about it, but to splash down what I know, in large masses of colours; that it may look like a smoke-and-flame...
A Literary Introduction. Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, D. H…
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3 years ago
My discovery of Ernest Hemingway, D. H. Lawrence, and Dylan Thomas, came about as a result of a new English teacher — a fresh-faced young Welshman called Mr Jones — who, in 1960, had been...
‘Eight Days in May’ and ‘Aftermath’ Review: Surviving the Time of Wolves
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3 years ago
“Eight Days in May,” a gripping, immaculately researched retelling of the Nazi Götterdämmerung, is the story of an intermission, a phase, as the German author Erich Kästner wrote in his diary,...
Architects of an American Landscape’ Review: Genius by Design
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3 years ago
Anumber of years ago, author Hugh Howard told the editor at his publishing house that he wanted to resurrect the reputation of Henry Hobson Richardson, “the most admired architect of his era.” But...
Book Review: 'Blood and Iron' History of German Empire
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3 years ago
The 1860s were a tumultuous time. Many Americans associate the decade with the U.S. Civil War, which the historian Shelby Foote called “the crossroads of our being.” But while the United States...
‘Literary Alchemist’ Review: Finding Gold Everywhere
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3 years ago
There has never been a more beautifully modulated book about the deep-freeze of a human soul than “Mrs. Bridge.” Evan S. Connell’s 1959 novel is a masterpiece of understatement, its story culled...
Island Infernos’ Review: Battle of the Beachheads
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4 years ago
Eighty years ago this month, the American entry into World War II was precipitated by the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. But the ensuing clash in the war’s Pacific theater has long been...
‘Fears of a Setting Sun’ Review: Factions at America’s Founding
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4 years ago
As delegates to the Constitutional Convention affixed their signatures to the final document in 1787, Benjamin Franklin fixed his attention on the half-sun carved into the back of the mahogany...