Monthly Archives: May 2020

Book Review: Colette

Posted on May 25, 2020 by nathanalbright

Colette, by Nicole Ward Jouve One of the tragedies of this book is the way that the author demonstrates the difficulty of moving beyond the dichotomies that are so common in categorizing people.  Colette herself as a writer has been … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Gigi And The Cat

Posted on May 25, 2020 by nathanalbright

Gigi And The Cat, by Colette This book is a collection of two novellas, both of which give some idea of the sharp-eyed way that the author was able to look at the lives of characters in less than ideal … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Abraham Lincoln: Prairie Lawyer

Posted on May 24, 2020 by nathanalbright

Abraham Lincoln:  Prairie Lawyer, by John J. Duff Abraham Lincoln’s career as a lawyer is one of those strange areas of history that many historians tangle with at one point or another.  This author has high views of Lincoln as … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Abraham Lincoln: The Lawyer-Statesman

Posted on May 24, 2020 by nathanalbright

Abraham Lincoln:  The Lawyer-Statesman, by John T. Richards Even though the author was the head of the Chicago Bar, this book reads as if it was written by a Southerner who is moderately fine with Abraham Lincoln but strongly anti-abolitionist … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lincoln The Lawyer

Posted on May 24, 2020 by nathanalbright

Lincoln The Lawyer, by Frederick Trevor Hill One of the more fascinating and obscure aspects of Lincoln’s career is his time as a lawyer, and at least a few books have been written about this subject [1].  That said, although … Continue reading →

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To Justify Is Human

Posted on May 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

The capacity for self-justification is one of those universal human tendencies which frequently causes us problems as human beings.  As someone who has a not insignificant portion of this particular quality, I do not comment on the issue in order … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lincoln And His Generals

Posted on May 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

Lincoln And His Generals, by Clarence Edward Macartney Is this book necessary?  To be fair, there are a lot of books about Abraham Lincoln in existence, many of which I happen to have read and reviewed and many more of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Lincoln Of The Thirtieth Congress

Posted on May 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

The Lincoln Of The Thirtieth Congress, by Roy D. Packard This book is a deeply entertaining one, in that it focuses on one of the important but somewhat obscure aspects of Lincoln’s career, and that is his time as the … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lincoln And The Patronage

Posted on May 23, 2020 by nathanalbright

Lincoln And The Patronage, by Carl Russell Fish One of the more unfortunate aspects of government jobs is the way that many people idealize the civil service as if the bureaucracy that we have right now is a good thing.  … Continue reading →

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The Gallant Logistician

Posted on May 22, 2020 by nathanalbright

One of the more lamentably common aspects of reading about the Civil War is the massive inferiority that the Confederacy had with regards to logistics.  While it has been fashionable among Lost Cause narratives to blame the Civil War on … Continue reading →

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