Jody Ferguson
The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
Benn Steil wrote this timely piece about the magnanimous, yet strategically astute, European Recovery Program, known popularly as the...
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The China Mission; George Marshall's Unfinished War 1945-47
Well researched and well-written account of the attempt by Harry Truman to bring peace to China in the years after WWII. Unable to...
Jody Ferguson
Fiction to Film
I make no claim to know all of the best novels that have been made into films. To do so would be as spurious a claim as saying I’ve read...
Jody Ferguson
Pilgrim's Progress
While recently watching the Netflix series “The Crown” I was delighted to see a segment where Queen Elizabeth, in a Christmas address to...
Jody Ferguson
Tom Lea
A painter that I greatly admire is Tom Lea, a native Texan who lived all his life in El Paso.
Jody Ferguson
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...
Jody Ferguson
Horns, Hogs, & Nixon Coming - Book Review
This weekend will see the renewal of a heated college football rivalry dating back to 1894. The Texas Longhorns travel to Fayetteville to...
Jody Ferguson
When We Were Orphans - Book Review
It is a book that leads the reader down a path leading to closed doors and blind alleys.
Jody Ferguson
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
Jody Ferguson
Book Review - Champions Day
James Carter, an historian at St. Joseph’s University, takes us into the horse racing world of antebellum Shanghai...
Jody Ferguson
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...
Jody Ferguson
Priscilla - Book Review
In his book Priscilla, The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France the English novelist Nicholas Shakespeare...
Jody Ferguson
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...
Jody Ferguson
Remember Ben Clayton - Book Review
Stephen Harrigan's novel Remember Ben Clayton is a beautiful tale of family, war, art and perseverance.
Jody Ferguson
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.
Jody Ferguson
Storm on Our Shores - Book Review
Mark Obmascik relates a beautiful wartime tale in his book The Storm On Our Shores.
Jody Ferguson
Eastern Approaches - Book Review
Fitzroy Maclean was an adventurer, a gentleman, a scholar, a diplomat, a warrior, and a hero.
Jody Ferguson
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.
Jody Ferguson
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...
Jody Ferguson
Wild Palms - Book Review
I recently re-read the novel The Wild Palms by William Faulkner, which he published in 1939.