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November 23, 2014

Book Review: The Viscount Who Lived Down the Lane

November 23, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

What an unruly, monstrous house cat hath joined together, let no man put asunder!

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November 2014, regency romance
November 23, 2014

Book Review: To Save a Viscount

November 23, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

England's newest viscount has an assassin's target pinned to his new title, and the spies who accidentally put it there now have a nobleman to protect

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November 2014, regency romance
November 20, 2014

Book Review: Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination

November 20, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

It's well known that Hitler looked to Mussolini's success in Italy as a model for his own fascism, but a fascinating new book details the lesser-known fact that Hitler had another model as well - an earlier and more exotic one.

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history, nazi germany, November 2014
November 17, 2014

Book Review: Fear City

November 17, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

F. Paul Wilson's supremely capable action-hero, "Repairman" Jack, wasn't always the kneecap-crushing arm-breaking, bad guy-defenestrating paragon his legions of fans know and love; once upon a time, he was a kneecap-crushing, arm-breaking, bad guy-defenestrating neophyte with a dream. "Fear City" takes us back to 1993.

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November 2014
November 16, 2014

Book Review: The Good War

November 16, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The war in Afghanistan began promisingly - and then dragged on, fell apart, and limped to a quasi-ending. A lively new book narrates the story

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November 15, 2014

Book Review: Ardor

November 15, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Intellectual polymath Roberto Calasso's latest translated work is an exploration of the ancient hymns and verses of the Vedas

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November 13, 2014

Book Review: Chain of Events

November 13, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

In this thriller, two specialists discover an unbelievable revelation written into the genetic code of all living things

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fiction, November 2014
November 12, 2014

Book Review: Chief Executive to Chief Justice

November 12, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

William Howard Taft was the only man to be both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and a new book tells the story of the overlooked years in between

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November 2014, William Howard Taft
November 11, 2014

Book Review: America's Pastor

November 11, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

For half a century, preacher Billy Graham was an unofficial spiritual advisor to presidents and rock stars; a new biography attempts to assess his impact on mainstream American religious thought

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biography, November 2014
November 10, 2014

Book Review: WWII - A Chronicle of Soldiering

November 10, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Fifty years ago, the author of "From Here to Eternity" wrote a vivid, impressionistic account of the Second World War, and that fascinating book now enjoys a new edition

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history, November 2014, Second World War
November 08, 2014

Book Review: Captive Paradise

November 08, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

James Haley's new history takes up the oft-told story of the Hawaiian Islands

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November 06, 2014

Book Review: Fire and Movement

November 06, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The British Expeditionary Force in the First World War has accrued a great many legends over the last century; Peter Hart's new account aims to delete the mythology - and still preserve the heroism

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first world war, military history, November 2014
November 03, 2014

Book Review: Bee Time

November 03, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

An enjoyable new book draws some unexpected parallels between human society and the world of bees

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natural history, November 2014
November 02, 2014

Book Review: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

November 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The bestselling author of the "Kingkiller Chronicles" turns in a short novella devoted to one of his fan-favorite characters

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fantasy, November 2014
November 01, 2014

Book Review: Eugene O'Neill - A Life in Four Acts

November 01, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

A punchy and intensely readable new biography of America's greatest playwright

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biography, November 2014
October 30, 2014

Book Review: Rebellion

October 30, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

Veteran popularizer Peter Ackroyd gives his readers a rattling good yarn of kings, decapitations, interregnums, frivolities, and depositions

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english history, October 2014, peter ackroyd
October 28, 2014

Book Review: The Marquis

October 28, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The boyish hero of the American Revolution who became a more problematic and complicated figure in the political upheavals of his native France, the celebrated Marquis de Lafayette gets a sparkling new biography

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biography, October 2014
October 26, 2014

Book Review: Imprudent King

October 26, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

He ruled an empire on which, it was famously said, the sun never set - and he did all the paperwork himself! It's a new life of King Philip II of Spain

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biography, October 2014
October 23, 2014

Book Review: Joan of Arc - A Life Transfigured

October 23, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

The mighty Maid who led medieval France's armies to a string of improbable victories before being burned at the stake for witchcraft has been immortalized in song, on stage, on film - and in countless books. A new biography is the latest to tell the tale.

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biography, October 2014
October 21, 2014

Ben Bradlee

October 21, 2014/ Open Letters Monthly

Rest in Peace

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October 2014
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