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Paris 1919 - Book Review
World War I and the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, ending that deadly conflict, occurred just over one hundred years ago. For many tod
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Colonel House - Book Review
Edward Mandell House was a erudite, accomplished man who exercised tremendous influence on U.S. politics and world diplomacy in the first tw
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Siberian Intervention - Book Review
In the closing days of the First World War President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly agreed to send several thousand U.S. soldiers to Russia
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Tour of Duty - Book Review
I had a hard time putting down John Dos Passos journalistic work Tour of Duty.
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Rampage - Book Review
This history of the little-known battle to free Manila from Japanese occupation in early 1945 is little known among the American public.
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With the Old Breed - Book Review
Eugene Sledge’s “With the Old Breed,” is a visceral account of his days island hopping across the Pacific as a U.S. Marine in 1944-45.
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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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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
Tribeza Magazine
It's exciting to appear in this month's Community + Wellness Issue of Tribeza magazine featuring Virginia Cumberbatch and Meagan Harding...
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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.
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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...
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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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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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