History has produced plenty of incompetent generals and plenty of high-ranking traitors, but few combined the two traits as well as General James Wilkinson. When the War of 1812 started, Wilkinson was the senior ranking military officer in the United States. He was also a thief and a con man, who monkeyed around with supply…
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Spies Make Good Writers — and Vice Versa
I’ll be back to blogging soon. The new job has taken a lot of time, even though it’s been great. I have a backlog of things to write about and of course I’ll be talking about my new book and other projects. In the meantime, I’m going to start cleaning out my notebook of interesting…