The Congo’s great liberation turned into abject failure
PAT MURPHY: How great plans quickly descended into decades of dictatorship, corruption, kleptocracy and violence
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Category: Books
The Habsburgs: Rise and fall of Europe’s premier dynasty
PAT MURPHY: They were canny, enduring and keen on expansion. In the end, however, the empire couldn’t survive the First World War (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Digging for the bones of a lost Irish hero
PAT MURPHY: Red Hugh O’Donnell was the kind of historical figure who often fires imaginations (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Finding new value – and a great back story – in an old film
PAT MURPHY: D-Day the Sixth of June was based on an award-winning novel by Canadian journalist Lionel Shapiro (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Hubris, conspiracy and the fall of Margaret Thatcher
BOOKS: The former U.K. prime minister had a radical streak and a thirst for combat that the men she led didn’t share (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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The Year 1000: a look at globalization’s roots
PAT MURPHY: Author Valerie Hansen demonstrates that the concept of international trading networks and linkages goes back a very long way (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Making sense of the world and ourselves in challenging times
GERRY CHIDIAC: The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz is a book for these troubled times. It’s as beautiful as it is insightful (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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The Black Death and its aftermath
PAT MURPHY: Surprisingly, post-Black Death populations tended to live longer and enjoy better health and standards of living (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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In praise of trashy paperbacks
PAT MURPHY: What could be bad about stories that are pacey, and replete with nefarious dealings, treachery, passion and lust? They’re great fun and you won’t nod off reading them (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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Thomas King exposed inconvenient Indigenous truths
ALLAN BONNER: The author is funny but not fooling around in The Inconvenient Indian, an examination of the movement to eliminate the Indigenous (FREE membership content)
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The making of an unlikely U.S. president
PAT MURPHY: The new book Becoming Ronald Reagan details the unlikely emergence of the most consequential Republican conservative of the 20th century (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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“Do. Or do not. There is no try.” The wisdom of Star Wars
GERRY CHIDIAC: Trying implies eventually giving up but doing implies putting in the effort until the goal is achieved (PREMIUM content/Not yet a PREMIUM member? $25)
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