Nonfiction

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Why read a book with a title that would scare the sanest person among us? Is it to prove one is “highbrow” or an “intellectual” or just looking to fool those around him?

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For years, Hollywood has been selling the story in which a regular guy gets threatened by the minions of an evil government, only to win out against all odds in the end.

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In Mary Tudor: Princess, Bastard, Queen, Anna Whitelock sets out offer a picture of English first Queen Regnant as something other than the “weak-willed failure as so often rendered by traditional

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Golden Ages are slippery things, confirmed only in hindsight. Did Rembrandt and Vermeer realize they would be remembered as the Dutch Masters?

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“Get your score card! Can’t tell the players without a score card!” The sounds of summer. In an election year, the sounds of the world politic.

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The press release for this military action thriller states that James Hannibal had to write the book on an “un-networked” laptop and then personally take the manuscript to Whiteman Air Force Base i

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 At the outset of this review this reviewer should confess his prejudices: he is a fan of C. K. Williams.

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For most of us, it wouldn’t seem like summer without fresh, ripe tomatoes.

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Welcome to Redneck economics and philosophy. If Mr. and Ms.

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An old adage warns against judging a book by its cover, but a title should avoid being a miscue to the prospective reader. In this case, unfortunately, the title could do just that.

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After an economic meltdown, a decade of war in the Middle East, and an Old Testament geyser in the gulf, we face a fork in the road of our national journey: Are our institutions—be they government,

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Kevin Walsh is a scratch golfer and a television journalist working in Boston.

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Providence has its signature upon everything of value, tangible and intangible.

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While it is true that you can’t judge a book by its cover, it is also true that titles can be equally misleading.

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Under the command of General Joe Johnston, the Army of Tennessee blocked Union General Sherman’s invasion of Georgia and his move toward Atlanta.

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One of the most accurate and inaccurate criticisms leveled at the romance genre is that they are all the same.

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H. Donald Winkler has researched the lives of nineteen daring women who changed the outcome of Civil War battles.

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 Ecklund sent surveys, each containing $15, to professors and researchers of the natural and social sciences at various elite higher-education institutions across the United States.

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Bakers who already own Room for Dessert and Ripe for Dessert know they can trustpastry chef and cookbook author David Lebovitz to provide reliable, delicious recipes.

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“He is the beginning and the end of music in America.”
—Bing Crosby on Louis Armstrong

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You might think there aren’t any more good stories left to be told about the sixties.

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 What could be a more contentious issue today than the conflict surrounding our border with Mexico?

 

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“. . . the lonely were more likely to have died than the nonlonely.”

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Ladybug Girl at the Beach is a delightful story about conquering fear of the unknown.

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