Book Review
Swan's WaySwan's Way
by Peyton Moss
This is a remarkable book, but not easy to encapsulate. Perhaps best described as a meditation ˆ partir de Proust, it is a parallel exploration of the fictional character of Charles Swann (a central figure of In Search of Lost Time),...
Book Review
Allegiances
by Peyton Moss
The schooner America is surely the most famous vessel in the history of yacht racing. Even confirmed landlubbers probably know the story of how she trounced the cream of England’s racing fleet in 1851 and established a competitive...
Book Review
Bandits Over Baghdad
by Peyton Moss
Primarily an account of the futuristic Stealth Fighter’s significant combat role in Operation Desert Storm, Bandits over Baghdad is a glossy, smoothly written production, filled with photographs, first-person accounts, and operational...
Book Review
Napoleon the Novelist
by Peyton Moss
For most people, the name Napoleon summons a familiar image: the military genius in his cocked hat and green overcoat, wagering his empire on classic battlefields from Austerlitz to Waterloo. To such readers, a “life” of Napoleon...
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War and Politics by Other Means
by Peyton Moss
This workmanlike memoir takes Scates from hardscrabble Depression Tennessee to the Pacific Northwest and onward to thirty-five years of exploring America and the world, first as a young merchant seaman, then a fledgling reporter, and...
Book Review
The Beast God Forgot to Invent
by Peyton Moss
The title novella of Harrison’s new collection is worth the price of admission itself. The Beast God Forgot to Invent is a fine example of mid-length fiction: engaging, surprising, intelligent and sophisticated in an off-handed way,...
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A Traveller's Guide to D-Day and the Battle for Normandy
by Peyton Moss
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the World War II battlefields of Northwest Europe with the fiftieth anniversary of the Normandy landings in particular sparking a surge in tourism. As the D-Day veterans age, many want to...
Book Review
Robert Nisbet
by Peyton Moss
“Everything vital in history reduces itself ultimately to ideas,” wrote seminal mid-century conservative thinker Robert Nisbet, the subject of this commendably concise and articulate intellectual biography. Nisbet, who died in 1996...
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