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Literary historical fiction: C.M. Mayo’s Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

Posted by on Feb 12, 2016 in News | Comments Off on Literary historical fiction: C.M. Mayo’s Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

Highly recommended to readers of historical fiction drawn to either a mother’s relentless quest to regain her child or to a convincing example of self-delusional hubris among the on-high.

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Best histories and biographies read during 2015

Posted by on Feb 4, 2016 in News, The Books That | Comments Off on Best histories and biographies read during 2015

First post in a good while. Been busy polishing up my manuscript, The Girl in the Iron Box: Tucson’s 1934 June Robles Kidnapping, & the Myth of J. Edgar Hoover’s Infallible FBI, and sending it off to a publisher for consideration. More on this in a future post. Here is my annual list of best biographies and histories read during the previous year. As in recent years, I have been reconnecting with aspects of European (including Beatles!) history that held my interest prior to my own turn to writing Southwest Borderlands history. Winston S. Churchill, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Vol III: 1705-1708. This 4-volume biography, certainly Churchill’s finest work of history (rather than memoir), just keeps getting better and better. Winston’s ancestor, John Churchill, the 1st Duke of Marlborough, was condemned to live in interesting times, never more so than...

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