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Boston Irish Reporter Review
The March edition of the Boston Irish Reporter has a wonderful review of When the Irish Invaded Canada by Peter Stevens, who called the book “A Fenian Fiasco Brilliantly Told.” Stevens writes, “Christopher Klein’s new book is a must-read for all with even a passing interest in Irish America, Ireland, and the Civil War. His…
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The Fenian Raids were a seminal moment in Canadian history, but a mere footnote in the United States. I’m hoping my new book on the Fenian Raids, When the Irish Invaded Canada, will make more people aware of the outlandish story of a band of Irish-American Civil War veterans who undertook one of the most…
Read MoreThe Harlem Hospital That Saved Martin Luther King, Jr.
A decade before Martin Luther King, Jr. was felled by a sniper’s bullet, he nearly died after being stabbed in the shoe section of a Harlem department store. The 29-year-old preacher had been sitting in a roped-off section of Blumstein’s Department signing copies of Stride Toward Freedom, his memoir about the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott,…
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