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Member: Markham Shaw Pyle, JD
Epinions.com ID: mshawpyle
Location: Houston, Texas
Member Since: Oct 09 '99
 
Favorite Websites: The SMH
  The Handbook of Texas
  The ABPP

Historian, baseballing bon vivant, Boll Weevil, W&L man; and the Walter Mitty of field sports  more
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Nov 04 '04 Election Analysis: Winners and Losers and Winning Losers and Losing Winners and… Writer's Corner: Politics Non-Fiction
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About mshawpyle



Current music: ‘Novemdiales: Funeral Music for Pope John Paul 2d,’ composed by Markham Shaw Pyle




Current music: ‘Four More: Fanfare and March for President George W. Bush,’ composed by … Markham Shaw Pyle

And Now ... Here’s Your Past and Present Hot List:

James McPherson’s Illustrated Battle Cry of Freedom

The Saudis: Delenda Est….

Why We Fight: The Pathology of Islamofascism

John McPhee’s Latest: Hooked on Shad-Fishing

Electrifying Ivy: Yale’s Professor Morgan On Penn’s Dr Benjamin Franklin

Da Bomb: Lawrence, Teller, Oppenheimer, and a Cast of Hundreds (Scientists, Soviets, Spies, and Senators)

The Price of Freedom: Primary Documents & Veterans’s Memories

Lawyers, Guns, and Money: The Care and Feeding of the Ruger .22 Sidearm


Welcome.

Markham Shaw Pyle, JD, holds his undergraduate (double major, Politics [Special Honors] and Philosophy) and law degrees from Washington & Lee (where, in between bourbons, quail season, and poker games, he wrote op-ed columns, did the Big Band show, and got sent to the US Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference), and served with a total lack of distinction with the current Stonewall Brigade, 3/116 INF, 29th INF DVN (LT).

He is a member of the Society for Military History, the Organization of American Historians, the Southern Historical Association, the Southwestern Social Science Association, the Southwestern Historical Association, the Southwestern Political Science Association, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Texas State Historical Association.

Mr Pyle believes firmly in the 1928 BCP, the National League, and good biscuits. He is vehemently opposed to the Designated Hitter Rule, unnatural fibers, and beans in chili.

He is – thank God – an ex-lawyer, and is now an independent historian by night and a wage-slave by day.

He also composes music, including that on this page.

Most of his time is currently occupied by matters of filial duty.

Interests:

Mr Pyle is a military historian, fly-fisherman, wing-shot, the worst squash player in the history of W&L, and the worst rider ever to embarrass friends at the Rockbridge Hunt. On the other hand, he has his moments with baseball stats, the Stonewall Brigade, and the obscurer bits of Great War intel. He likes dogs and horses. People are a toss-up.

For those of you – impatient and impetuous souls – who Don’t Read Manuals or who refuse to eat anything that can’t be microwaved, here’s the quick, cut-to-the-chase version. By and large, I’m a book reviewer. Sometimes, I tackle games, sometimes travel, and sometimes music and the culture – or what’s left of it. In the olden days, I sometimes covered booze, too. Thusly:


Selected Readings: Some Book Reviews



Bloodless Victories, Tactics, and Strategy: the Games Reviews

Paths of Glory: Travel the Battlegrounds


Requiem for a Culture: the Music Reviews




The Kindly Creature: Booze Reviews