Reviews were somewhat mixed (with some saying there is too much detail), so I went into reading the book with low expectations. What a surprise to find that it was absolutely fascinating reading! Not only did I learn about an unknown (to me) slice of early to mid-twentieth century history, I gain...
“Stay right there,” he said to family members who made to leave when he came in. “I’m not going to hurt anybody.”“Are you comfortable here?” Ford asked Mrs. Perini.“Very much.”“How do you like Iron Mountain?” he inquired.It was winter when the Perinis arrived in the Upper Pensinsula, having come ...
I think then that here would be the place to point out that I see my interest in Kissinger as somewhat antithetical to Hitchens’s 2001 polemic. The Trial of Henry Kissinger is a good example of what the great historian Charles Beard, in 1936, dismissed as a “devil theory of war,” which blames mil...
It’s a statement often made, easy to agree with, and hard to process since its truth is lost in its abstraction. But in writing this book, I’ve come to appreciate the assertion anew, to realize the ways that slavery insinuated itself into the soul and sinews of the West. The research for this his...