Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American history. Show all posts
Friday, June 15, 2018

ROUGH RIDERS: Theodore Roosevelt, His Cowboy Regiment, and the Immortal Charge Up San Juan Hill by Mark Lee Gardner

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REMEMBER THE MAINE! "The day that Roosevelt can go into battle with [the Rough Riders] will likely be the happiest of his life....
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

HUEY LONG by T. Harry Williams

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DICTATOR  – in politics, a leader who rules a country with absolute power, usually by force FASCIST  – an individual who favors dictato...
Saturday, May 6, 2017

IKE: An American Hero by Michael Korda

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“I like Ike!” Of course, I do; doesn't everybody? But I don’t worship at his altar and I bet you don’t either. However, I can’t s...
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Sunday, April 9, 2017

HIGH NOON: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic by Glenn Frankel

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This is a review of a book written about the making of the classic western film, HIGH NOON (UA, 1952).  If you wish, and I hope you do, yo...
Sunday, March 20, 2016

A CREEK CALLED WOUNDED KNEE (1978) by Douglas C. Jones

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O n December 29, 1890 Custer's old command, the Seventh Cavalry, attempted to disarm a band of 120 Minneconjou Sioux warriors led by C...
Tuesday, January 12, 2016

THE DOOLIN-DALTON GANG, Part I

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They were duelin', Doolin-Dalton High or low, it was the same Easy money and faithless women Red-eye whiskey for the pain ...
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