Doris Kearns Goodwin’s strength is in the way she captures the presidential scene with companionable prose that most professional historians are unable to capture.
Larry Madaras
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Rethinking the life and presidency of Ulysses S. Grant
For Ulysses S. Grant, history has finally decided to be kind.
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From Jonathan Edwards to Billy Graham
Larry Madaras reviews “The Evangelicals: An Essential History for the Struggle to Shape America” by Frances Fitzgerald.
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The Battle Before the War
John Burt analyzes in detail the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858.