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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

What’s the Matter with Kentucky?

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In John Quincy Adams , the author, Harlow Giles Unger, notes that Adams was consistent throughout his very long public career in defending ...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Zero Day; The Monument Men; The Borgias, the Hidden History; The War of 1812; and John Quincy Adams

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Note:  I'm having some eye trouble, so please forgive the typos.  From now on maybe it will only be recorded books.  jb David Balda...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Blood on the Water; The Johnstown Flood; Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America; Orfeo; and Latino Americans, The 500-Year Legacy That Shaped a Nation.

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Anne Perry .  Blood on the Water .  © 2014  This is the author’s 20 th book featuring William Monk.  If the others are all as good as this...
Monday, August 17, 2015

The Painting

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The Painting  2011  119 minutes   I regret that I haven’t had time to watch or comment on many movies lately, but this is just too good to ...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Democracy in America; The Assassination Option; The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards; Peace and War, Britain in 1914; Thunderstruck; Damage; The Ophelia Cut; The Day of Atonement; The 500; Bad Blood; and Lancaster and York: The War of the Roses

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Alexis de Tocqueville.  Democracy in America: Excerpts .  Originally published in 1835.  A modern introduction to de Tocqueville’s work sum...
Monday, June 22, 2015

But Enough about You; The Bible’s Cutting Room Floor: The Holy Scriptures; Book of Ages, The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin; and Ten Days that Shook the World -- десять дней, которые потрясли мир

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Christopher Buckley.  But Enough about You .  © 2013  The book is a collection of short, humorous pieces Buckley has written over the years...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot; The Lincoln Myth; The Second Machine Age; The Final Detail; Stranger; Augustus: The Life of Rome’s First Emperor; The Zhivago Affair; The Last of the Doughboys; New York Burning; Satanic Verses; and Cleopatra, A Life

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Ace Atkins.  Robert B. Parker’s Cheap Shot .  © 2014  Several authors have picked up where Parker left off.  This is #43 in the PI Spenser...