John Matteson reviews “The Fate of the West” by Bill Emmott
John Matteson
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100 years after World War I, is it possible to hope in human progress?
John Matteson reviews two books about World War I: “The World Remade: America in World War I” and “The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End.”
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A Mortal Wound: Marking 150 years since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
With the coming of April 2015 the sesquicentennial of the Civil War draws to a close giving ample cause to look back on one of the most cataclysmic months in the nation rsquo s history It is now hard to imagine the surge of contrasting emotions that Americans felt first on April 9 1865 when Ge
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A War of the 1 Percent
Bruce Levine’s study of Confederate society seeks to correct the errors of generations past.