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The Typewriter and the Guillotine: An American Journalist, a German Serial Killer, and Paris on the Eve of WWII
By Mark Braude
A gripping account of the City of Light as the Nazis slink ever closer.
A Perfect Frenzy
By Andrew Lawler
An imperfect account of revolutionary Virginia.
Lawless Republic
By Josiah Osgood
What the legendary orator/striver can teach us yet today.
The Oak and the Larch: A Forest History of Russia and Its Empires
By Sophie Pinkham
How the country’s relationship to its trees shaped its place in the world.
Righteous Strife
By Richard Carwardine
Was Abe’s spiritual transformation an honest one?
Kings and Pawns: Jackie Robinson and Paul Robeson in America
By Howard Bryant
More than anything, the Cold War was a chess match.
The First and Last King of Haiti
By Marlene L. Daut
This revelatory work restores a lost figure to the pantheon of pivotal world leaders.
Perhaps Russia’s future, if not its present, will be female.
