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Stalin’s Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva
By Rosemary Sullivan
Imprecise language and a lack of Russian expertise mar this biography of the dictator's only girl.
Goebbels: A Biography
By Peter Longerich; translated by Alan Bance, Jeremy Noakes, and Lesley Sharpe
A stunning, encyclopedic study of Hitler’s propaganda minister.
Man in Profile: Joseph Mitchell of The New Yorker
By Thomas Kunkel
The consummate storyteller is brought alive in this new biography.
While digging for the antiques hidden by his great-great-grandfather, the author explores the history, food, and culture of his ancestral home.
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family’s Nazi Past
By Jennifer Teege and Nikola Sellmair
The author struggles to reconcile fond memories of her grandma with that woman's love of a mass murderer.
The Shepherd’s Life: Modern Dispatches from an Ancient Landscape
By James Rebanks
A sheep farmer's disarming chronicle of life in the fields.
Michelle Obama: A Life
By Peter Slevin
A premature retrospective on a subject whose time has yet to come.
King John and the Road to Magna Carta
By Stephen Church
Though fact-filled, this biography sheds little new light on a complex monarch.
