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Gilded-Age New Orleans Was Not “The Big Easy”

On the pleasant, bird-chirping morning of 24 April 1862 alarm bells suddenly rang across the city of New Orleans, announcing the Old South was over and the New South had arrived quicker than a hummingbird’s eyeblink. Admiral David “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Farragut and his armada had broken through the last lines of […]

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Doing the Cold-War Armageddon Shuffle, or It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again

In my recently released historical novel, Soldier in Germany, I show a small contingent of U.S. airmen, stationed in 1972 West Germany, who have been given the singular and most wonderful task of helping to prepare the Western allies for a nuclear war with the only other (at the time) world superpower, the Soviet Union.

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