An investigation of an alternative Democratic nominee in the 1922 Senate election.
Read MoreThe offspring of an article on the quixotic Presidential campaign of former Senator Joseph I. France, who “beat” incumbent President Hoover in several primaries.
Read MoreA repurposed excerpt on the election that sent archconservative Styles Bridges to the Senate for the first time.
Read MoreA quickie history of the Massachusetts Republican Convention of 1936, featuring mainly material from Miller's biography of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., and from Leverett Saltonstall's memoirs, written with Edward Weeks.
Read MoreA culmination: Barbara Tuchman’s essay collection on the fin de siècle West and the years before World War One.
Read MoreBenjamin Carter Hett’s first book, on the Wilhelmine-era German criminal justice system (and some true crime).
Read MoreA mix of ocean liner disaster, true crime, and American Studies.
Read MoreTwo professors on the Garden State’s iconic item of fakelore.
Read MoreA look at a much-maligned swamp just west of New York City.
Read MoreL’affaire Dreyfus, the miscarriage of justice and surrounding culture war that exacerbated Third Republic France’s divisions.
Read MoreThe only biography of literally everyone’s favorite early 20th century Boston Irish machine politician.
Read MoreA summary and proposed solution to the mystery of the death of Austria-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889.
Read MoreA typically grandiose Victorian/Edwardian legal case only leads to more mystery.
Read MoreA book about the downside of the prehistoric formation of states, and who “barbarians” might not have been, or have had it, so bad.
Read MoreA few notes on The Gentleman Mr. Shattuck by John T. Galvin, Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics 1900-1912 by Richard M. Abrams, David I. Walsh, Citizen-Patriot by Dorothy G. Wayman, The Knave of Boston by Francis Russell, “Honey Fitz:” Three Steps to the White House by John Henry Cutler, The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys: An American Saga by Doris Kearns Goodwin, Leading The Way: A History of the Massachusetts General Court 1629-1980 by Cornelius Dalton, John Wirkkala, and Anne Thomas, The Remarkable Kennedys by Joe McCarthy, and Boston Mahatma by Leslie G. Ainley.
Read MoreA book about highway killers.
Read MoreA pseudo-Gothic novel about a magician fight.
Read MoreGrahan Greene’s novel about a seventeen year-old gangster in a beach town.
Read MoreA thriller set, unintentionally, in the run-up to World War 2.
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