Episodes

Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Saturday Apr 18, 2020
Review of The Phantom Atlas: The Greatest Myths, Lies and Blunders on Maps, by Edward Brooke-Hitching

Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Review of Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Review of Korea: Where the American Century Began, by Michael Pembroke

Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Saturday Apr 04, 2020
Review of Working: Researching, Interviewing, Writing, by Robert A. Caro

Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Review of The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness, by Harlow Giles Unger

Monday Mar 30, 2020
Monday Mar 30, 2020
Review of: America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History, by Andrew J. Bacevich

Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Sunday Mar 01, 2020
Review of: "The Bank War and the Partisan Press: Newspapers, Financial Institutions, and the Post Office in Jacksonian America," by Stephen W. Campbell

Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Saturday Feb 01, 2020
Review of: "Embattled Freedom: Journeys through the Civil War’s Slave Refugee Camps," by Amy Murrell Taylor

Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Review of: "Napoleon: A Life" by Adam Zamoyski
[CORRECTION: the podcast version of this review misidentifies the location of Napoleon’s death. Napoleon died on a remote island in the South Atlantic. The written text has been corrected.]

Monday Oct 14, 2019
Monday Oct 14, 2019
Review of: "The Land Shall be Deluged in Blood: A New History of the Nat Turner Revolt" by Patrick H. Breen

Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Hero of the Empire" by Candice Millard
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Review of: "Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape and the Making of Winston Churchill," by Candice Millard