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The Aviators: Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the Epic Age of Flight by Winston Groom, National Geographic, Washington, D.C., 2013, $30 The great merit of this book by Winston Groom, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of Forrest Gump, Shiloh 1862 and Vicksburg 1863, is the possibility that it will introduce aviation to …
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Encounter: Grand Duke Alexis Meets Buffalo Bill, Custer, Sherman and Chief Spotted TailThe United States was born in a revolution against royalty, but every once in a while Americans go gaga over some foreigner with a fancy title. It happened when Grand Duke Alexis o… Read MoreThe First: Woman TycoonHetty Green could pinch a penny till it begged for mercy. Green’s legendary stinginess and dour demeanor earned her the sobriquet “Witch of Wall Street,” but her business smarts pu… Read MoreAmerican History Gazette- June 2010Cutbacks Endanger Historic Sites George Washington and his troops—in the form of reenactors—crossed the Delaware River last December for the 57th time. As usual, they disembarked f… Read MoreInterview: Thomas Bender, a scholar who views our nation’s history from a global perspectiveWhat role has Haiti played in U.S. history? The fact that the United States eventually emerged as a world power is a direct result of a revolution on the island—the largest slave r… Read MoreHow Respect for Bankers Turns to HateFinancial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich by Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen Wright and Cowen capture the grand visions and often bitter public disappointments … Read More
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