BEFORE THE FALL: THE EMBERS OF WAR
BEFORE THE FALL For some reason I have failed this year to post reviews of a number of books that I loved and are central to this blogh. How does this happen? Well,...
Read MoreBEFORE THE FALL For some reason I have failed this year to post reviews of a number of books that I loved and are central to this blogh. How does this happen? Well,...
Read MoreBEFORE THE STORM BY RICK PERLSTEIN Rick Perlstein’s Before The Storm is a prequel to his book Nixonland and views the rise of the modern conservative movement through...
Read MoreGeorge McGovern George McGovern’s 1972 campaign was the first presidential contest I became involved in. My friend Al Giordano was working as a McGovern volunteer and...
Read MoreIN THE MIDST OF WARS: GRAHAM GREENE’S THE QUIET AMERICAN  The Quiet American By Graham Greene In The Midst of Wars By Edward Landsdale The Huk Rebllion By Benedict...
Read MoreIf a blogh is not a place to reveal ones deepest shame I don’t know what is. So I am going to confess that for a number of years in high school I was that most...
Read MoreNGUYEN COCHINCHINA SOUTHERN VIETNAM IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES By Li Tana Southeast Asia Program Publications Southeast Asia Program Cornell University...
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