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Tom Lea

A painter that I greatly admire is Tom Lea, a native Texan who lived all his life in El Paso.

Army-Navy Game

Tomorrow will mark the 121st game between Army and Navy on the gridiron. They have met every year since 1890, apart from two separate two...

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When We Were Orphans - Book Review

It is a book that leads the reader down a path leading to closed doors and blind alleys.

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The Last Kings of Shanghai - Book Review

In his history The Last Kings of Shanghai, Jonathan Kaufman, a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter from The Boston Globe recounts the story

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Book Review - Champions Day

James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...

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Year Zero - Book Review

I wrote recently in my novel Above the Water, "the most dangerous times during a war are at the end. That is when the discipline that has...

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Priscilla - Book Review

In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...

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City of Devils - Book Review

Paul French, whose first book Midnight in Peking became a New York Times bestseller, explores a topic dear to me in his latest book...

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Remember Ben Clayton - Book Review

Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.

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Imperial Twilight - Book Review

Imperial Twilight dissects the causes of the First Opium War between Great Britain and the Qing Dynasty in China in the 1840s.

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Storm on Our Shores - Book Review

Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.

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Eastern Approaches - Book Review

Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.

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Forgotten Ally - Book Review

His book, Forgotten Ally, is a history of China’s role in the war, which for China began in 1937, four years before Pearl Harbor.

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Empire of the Sun - Book Review

In his autobiographical novel Empire of the Sun J.G. Ballard tells us how he survived his adolescent years alone in an internment camp...

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Wild Palms - Book Review

I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.

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The Opium War - Book Review

In her book The Opium Wars British academic Julia Lovell describes both the historical and the contemporary Chinese distrust of the West...

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Empire Summer Moon - Book Review

The focus of Gwynne’s book is Quanah Parker, the last wartime Comanche chief, who ironically was the son of Cynthia Parker...

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Ambulance Drivers - Book Review

This friendship between Hemingway and Dos Passos is documented nicely in the book The Ambulance Drivers by James McGrath Morris.

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Lawrence in Arabia - Book Review

The subtitle of the book tells you much more about the story Anderson is trying to relate to the reader: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly...

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The Swerve - Book Review

Before reading The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, I had vaguely heard of Epicurus...

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