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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
By Charlotte Gray
An able corrective to the notion that great men are self-made.
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By Daniel Finkelstein
A harrowing account of escaping the Nazis and the Gulag.
Like a Rolling Stone
By Jann S. Wenner
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A rock-journalism kingmaker sums it all up.
Before the Gilded Age: W.W. Corcoran and the Rise of American Capital and Culture
By Mark L. Goldstein
Meet the most noteworthy financier you’ve never heard of.
The Fifth Act
By Elliot Ackerman
A painful, essential read from perhaps the only author who could’ve written it.
Necessary Trouble: Growing Up at Midcentury
By Drew Gilpin Faust
An historian/academic reflects on the tumultuous 1960s.
Nein, Nein, Nein!
By Jerry Stahl
A writer soothes his sadness at Auschwitz. Really.
Shipwrecked: A True Civil War Story of Mutinies, Jailbreaks, Blockade-Running, and the Slave Trade
By Jonathan W. White
An ambitious, bloated tale of 19th-century derring-do.
