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...
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Greece
If you read any of my other blogs connected to the Mediterranean you know that when I get around, I want to see the history of the region...
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...
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Provence
it is amazing how much Roman infrastructure has remained in use for two thousand years.
Jody Ferguson
Dalmatia
Dalmatia is littered with Roman ruins (including one of the world’s largest Roman colosseums), Italian churches, Medieval walled
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
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg is a jewel of a city. Its history is fascinating, beginning with the modernizer Peter the Great’s attempt to build a “Window
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Shanghai Celebrities
In the first half of the 20th century Shanghai was one of the grand destinations for luxury travelers. Of course, in those days before inter
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Andalusia
Andalusia is one of my favorite places in all of the world. From the sun-splashed sea to the dramatic, barren mountains, the region...
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
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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