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Peter F. Stevens, news and features editor of the Boston Irish Reporter, is a veteran journalist with a specialty in historical writing. His work has been syndicated by the New York Times and has been published in dozens of magazines and newspapers. Stevens is also a two-time winner of the toon meer International Regional Magazine Association's Gold Medal for Feature Writing. toon minder

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1955
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Excellent. In today's attempts to poison the atmosphere for immigrants to the United States by the know-nothing nativist Trump-base (which, thankfully, is more than counter-balanced by the many decent Americans who remember where their forebears came from, and the checks and balances of the American constitution and judicial system) it's useful to read how shamefully Irish Catholic immigrants were treated at the time of the Mexican-American war. John Riley and the people who fought with him against the militias fielded by the American army and its officer class (Riley was known to avoid targeting enlisted men wherever possible) had no initial urge to fight on the Mexican side but 'deserted' to it to avoid the gratuitous violence visited on them by WASP officers in the American ranks. Any true-born Irishman could be tempted to say to himself, after reading this book, that he too would probably have fought on the Mexican side at the time. The book pays due honor to the American army officers and Mexican army officers who acted decently, i.e. in the exact opposite way to the barbarous West Point graduates and the genocidal militias to whose unholy racism many American gun rights enthusiasts and anti-Black, anti-Spick, anti-Mick, anti-Jew homicidal prejudices still pay homage (the latest tale of how this is continuing to happen being Spike Lee's great film BlacKkKlansman).… (meer)
 
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JohnJGaynard | Dec 31, 2018 |
Quick read about Malinda and Keith Blalock, a western North Carolina couple that fought for the Union. They was against most of their neighbors who sided with the Confederacy. The Blalock's were partisans, scouts, bushwackers and finally joined the 10th Michigan Cavalry and rode with Stoneman in 1865.
 
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dhughes | May 18, 2013 |
A basic, boring history of the Secret Service. The hints at controversy are intriguing, but then they leave you to draw your own conclusion. In the end, I decided that cutting the Secret Service budget probably is the wrong place to cut.
 
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dherrick52 | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 12, 2011 |
The author is very critical of the Secret Service. His chapter on the Kennedy killing suggests that better driving could have gotten him out of the way after the first shot. He is equally cricitical of how the Reagan shooting played out. It would be interesting to learn his take on the shoes thrown at Bush. Why did the Secret Service permit the second shoe to be thrown. I would give this book a B.
 
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carterchristian1 | 1 andere bespreking | Mar 24, 2009 |

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