David Madden
Content by David Madden
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Stephen Berry's astonishing claim that no book has ever before traced the saga of a single family that illustrates the often spoken phrase brother against brother makes his choice of Lincoln an
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In One Man Great Enough: Abraham Lincoln's Road to Civil War, John C.
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In Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz scours Civil War battlegrounds adjacent to shopping malls and sends dispatches to his fellow Americans that sound less like ne
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The saga of Hattie Shepherd, an African American who leaves Georgia in 1925 in pursuit of the American dream in Philadelphia, may sound as if it would be made of common elements.
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Every decade or so, I find a novel that I sense, just by reading the basic description, will become unforgettable; after reading only 20 pages of The Gendarme, my impression was co
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Unique among Lincoln books is Chuck Wills' Lincoln: The Presidential Archives, consisting of intimate photographs, personal letters, and documents that changed history.
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What if some, or even a few, of the legends that keep Lincoln's legacy alive and vibrant for us were exposed as fabrications?
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At 528 pages, Rich Boy is a Space Age version of a Victorian family saga, with the great difference being that the family is not upper-class English but Philadelphia Jewish.
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Elizabeth Cox is among those rare Southern writers who bypass the expected and too often repeated elements of contemporary Southern fiction: stereotypical characters in bizarre situations, talking
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Seven score and a few years ago, President Abraham Lincoln brought forth upon this globe words that the world has long remembered.
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One of the latest and most absorbing of the hundreds of collections of Civil War photographs is Historic Photos of Gettysburg, with text and captions by John S. Salmon.
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Jeff Shaara's The Last Full Measure brings a unique and monumental father-son trilogy to a triumphant conclusion.
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