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This page links to all my reviews of books about history.
Date | Place | Review Title | Book Title | Author |
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2010-2019 | ||||
August 4, 2019 | VDARE | Is Boris Johnson Churchill Redux — And Would That Be A Good Thing? | Churchill's Headmaster: The "Sadist" Who Nearly Saved the British Empire | Edward Dutton |
December 18, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | The Legacy of the Mad Kaiser | Kaiser Wilhelm II: A Concise Life | John C.G. Röhl |
November 20, 2014 | Taki's Magazine | Ike the Ringer | Eisenhower: A Life | Paul Johnson |
August 22, 2013 | Taki's Magazine | The Romance of American Blackness | The Butler (movie) | Lee Daniels, Oprah Winfrey |
July/August 2013 | The American Spectator | Field of Dreams | Gettysburg: The Last Invasion | Allen C. Guelzo |
February 21, 2013 | VDARE | Why
So Little Mention Of The 1924 Immigration Act? |
Coolidge | Amity Shlaes |
2000-2009 | ||||
September 2009 | The New Criterion | In that Dawn | The Age of Wonder | Richard Holmes |
Fall 2008 | Claremont Review of Books |
When Worlds Collide | The Great Arab Conquests God's Crucible |
Hugh Kennedy David Levering Lewis |
Winter 2006/2007 | Claremont Review of Books |
The Mad, the Grim, and the Sot | Osman's Dream | Caroline Finkel |
December 12, 2006 | The Wall Street Journal | A Quiet Man in a Roaring Time | Calvin Coolidge | David Greenberg |
September 13, 2006 | NRO | Fear of the Horizon | Christian Slaves, Muslim Masters | Robert C. Davis |
October 24, 2005 | National Review | Big Cheeses | La Belle France | Alistair Horne |
September 1, 2005 | The New York Sun | What's the Big Idea? | Ideas | Peter Watson |
June 22, 2005 | The New York Sun | The Beer Tasted Better | The Edwardians | Roy Hattersley |
March 22, 2004 | The New York Sun | The Unsurprising War | Europe's Last Summer | David Fromkin |
March 12, 2003 | The New York Sun | A Provincial Enterprise. | To Begin the World Anew | Bernard Bailyn |
Spring 2003 | Claremont Review of Books |
Here We Go Over the Pamirs | A Short History of the World | Geoffrey Blainey |
October 14, 2002 | National Review | Hiberno-Fascism | 1916: The Easter Rising | Tim Pat Coogan |
September 23, 2002 | The New York Sun | One of the Witness Generation | The Dawn of Universal History | Raymond Aron |
April 24, 2002 | The New York Sun | The End Is Nigh | At the End of an Age | John Lukacs |
December 3, 2001 | National Review | Empire Restored | Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire |
Norman Davies |
November 2000 | The New Criterion | Slim Pickings | Berlin in Lights: The Diaries of Harry Kessler |
edited and translated by Charles Kessler |
June 5, 2000 | National Review | Disunited Kingdom | The Isles: A History | Norman Davies |
Before 2000 | ||||
March 15, 1998 | The Boston Globe | Whence the English Americans came, and what they wrought |
Albion's Seed The Scotch-Irish History of the American People Florence Harding Calvin Coolidge |
David Hackett Fischer James G. Leyburn Paul Johnson Carl S. Anthony Robert Sobel |
September 21 1997 | Washington Post "Book World" |
Scenes from a Century | A Thread of Years | John Lukacs |