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Regarp BookBlogPod

Book Reviews & Essays

Episodes

August 3, 2025 10 mins

Review of:  Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire, by Raymond Jonas

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Review of: Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, by Rick Perlstein

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Review of:  The City and Its Uncertain Walls, by Haruki Murakami

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Review of:  Decade of Disunion: How Massachusetts and South Carolina Led the Way to Civil War, 1849-1861, by Robert W. Merry 

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Review of:  The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic: Reconstruction, 1860-1920, by Manisha Sinha

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Review of:  Nuclear War: A Scenario, by Annie Jacobsen

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Review of:  The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century, by Scott Miller

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Review of:  American Civil Wars: A Continental History, 1850-1873, by Alan Taylor

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Review of:  Benjamin Franklin Butler: A Noisy, Fearless Life, by Elizabeth D. Leonard

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Review of:  Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President, by Candice Millard

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Review of:  Brought Forth on This Continent: Abraham Lincoln and American Immigration, by Harold Holzer

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Review of:  To Hell and Back: Europe 1914-1949, by Ian Kershaw

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Review of:  On Tyranny (Graphic Edition): Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century,

by Timothy Snyder, Illustrated by Nora Krug

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Review of:  The Saddest Words: William Faulkner's Civil War, by Michael Gorra

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Review of:  The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History, by Serhii Plokhy

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Review of:  Ota Benga: The Pygmy in the Zoo, by Phillips Verner Bradford & Harvey Blume

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Review of:  The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 BC-400 AD, by Charles Freeman

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Review of: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America, by Timothy Snyder

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Review of: Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided, by Scott Eyman

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Review of:  The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War, by Aaron Sheehan-Dean

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