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Chronicles Magazine November 2018

REVIEWS

What Leads to What
Mark Brennan - OCTOBER 11, 2018
When Adam Tooze’s latest book, Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World, hit bookstores this past August, I suggested I review it to Chilton. He immediately agreed. Within days the gargantuan review copy landed with a thud...
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Obsession!
H.A. Scott Trask - OCTOBER 11, 2018
Reading Ann Coulter’s newest polemical masterpiece brings to mind one of her previous ones. I don’t mean her sparkling In Trump We Trust, published just before the 2016 election (and reviewed in this magazine), in which she predicted that the...
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A Matter of Necessity
Patrick Walsh - OCTOBER 11, 2018
God, War, and Providence approaches the story of Roger Williams by exploring the relationship between Puritan Massachusetts and Williams’s Rhode Island, and the relations both colonies had with the Indian tribes inhabiting these regions.
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What the Editors Are Reading
Chilton Williamson Jr., Aaron D. Wolf - OCTOBER 11, 2018
As a means to a brief escape from the (so far) miserable 21st century I picked up and began reading The Reason Why, an excellent work of nonacademic history published in 1953 by Cecil Woodham-Smith . . .
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Books in Brief
Chilton Williamson Jr. - OCTOBER 11, 2018
Not only is Father Rutler one of the most brilliant priests in the country; he is also one of the finest writers of the English language today.
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Society & Culture

Campaigning for Narcissists
Joshua Doggrell - OCTOBER 11, 2018
On even-numbered years, particularly the ones coinciding with a presidential midterm, my Deep South home county undergoes the grotesque onslaught of local elections.
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