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April 26, 2015

Book Review: The Last Days of George Armstrong Custer

April 26, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Author Thom Hatch promises mind-blowing new revelations in his book on the Battle of Little Bighorn. And in other news, Rutherford B. Hayes is rumored to be contemplating a run for president.

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american history, April 2015
March 30, 2015

Book Review: Washington's Circle

March 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A fantastic new book tells the story of President Washington and the extraordinary team he assembled to form the new nation's first administration

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american history, March 2015
March 14, 2015

Book Review: Hissing Cousins

March 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The daughter of the first President Roosevelt and the wife of the second President Roosevelt had a long and sometimes cross-purposed relationship. A new book dishes the old dirt.

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February 19, 2015

Book Review: Cold War Modernists

February 19, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

The clashes of the Cold War weren't just matters of missiles and border guards; they also enlisted honey-voiced broadcasters, drunken novelists, and bookish magazine editors, as a fascinating new book makes clear

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February 14, 2015

Book Review: The Strategist

February 14, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Two-time National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft kept a low profile (and a negligible paper trail) throughout a lifetime in Washington power-dealing; a compelling new book profiles the ultimate Oval Office insider

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February 06, 2015

Book Review: Thieves' Road

February 06, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Two years before he gained fame in the most painful way imaginable at the Battle of Little Bighorn, George Armstrong Custer led a large expedition into the Black Hills sacred to the Sioux - in search of gold

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February 01, 2015

Book Review: A Superpower Transformed

February 01, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A paradigm-shifting new book looks at the turbulent decade of the 1970s in United States politics and the re-shaping of the world

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Politics & History
american history, February 2015, richard nixon
January 30, 2015

Book Review: One Nation, Under Gods

January 30, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

From the Puritans and their city on a hill to the Mormons to modern-day charlatans, the story of the United States is the story of competing faiths; a lively new book looks at that complicated tapestry

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January 23, 2015

Book Review: American Passage

January 23, 2015/ Open Letters Monthly

For the earliest New England settlers, there were no roads through the wilderness - only the pathways used by suspicious and distrustful natives. And yet, the desire to share news was as strong as ever - a fascinating new book looks at the ways gossip travels in the woods.

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January 13, 2015

Book Review: Taking on Theodore Roosevelt

January 13, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

A lively, authoritative new book examines one of the darkest stains on the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt

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January 08, 2015

Book Review: The Last Warrior

January 08, 2015/ Steve Donoghue

Decade after decade, one man has worked at the heart of the Pentagon, advising a long string of presidents and cabinet ministers about the role of American power in the world. A new book brings his story out of the shadows.

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December 26, 2014

Book Review: American Apocalypse

December 26, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A new history presents a history of 20th-Century American radical evangelism that will go down very well on the Liberty University campus

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November 24, 2014

Book Review: The War of 1812

November 24, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A fiery new history seeks to reclaim the lost honor of both Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans

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american history, military history, November 2014
September 21, 2014

Book Review: Founders as Fathers

September 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A new book looks at the family lives of five Virginian grandees during the American Revolution era

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September 21, 2014

Book Review: To Make Men Free

September 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

From Lincoln to Roosevelt to Eisenhower to Reagan and beyond - a new book tells the raucous and problematic history of the American Republican Party

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September 20, 2014

Book Review: An Empire on the Edge

September 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A spry new history re-examines all the forces that converged to compel the separation between the British Empire and the American colonies

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June 21, 2014

Book Review: Independence

June 21, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The complicated history of the American Revolution gets its best examination in a generation in Thomas Slaughter's new book

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April 29, 2014

Book Review: The Fights on the Little Horn

April 29, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The darkly iconic Last Stand of George Armstrong Custer receives an exuberantly detailed new account

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February 08, 2014

Book Review: James & Dolley Madison

February 08, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A new dual-biography of James Madison and his wife Dolley sees them through some of fledgling America's most trying times

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February 04, 2014

Book Review: Lincoln's Boys

February 04, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The image of Abraham Lincoln - the saintly, martyred Great Emancipator - is a permanent fixture of human culture … but a fascinating new book takes a detailed look at the men who carefully crafted that image

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american history, February 2014
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