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Richard III: England’s Most Controversial King
By Chris Skidmore
Misunderstood? Maligned? Maybe so…but still as ruthless as the age in which he lived.
Nabokov’s Favorite Word Is Mauve
By Ben Blatt
A fascinating statistical exploration of authors' preferred tricks of the trade.
Four Princes
By John Julius Norwich
A famed historian offers a fascinating look at the intersecting reigns of several powerful rulers.
A preeminent Holocaust historian offers up a new book two decades in the making.
Washington’s Farewell
By John Avlon
A timely account of our first president's most prescient paper.
Hallelujah Anyway
By Anne Lamott
This little gem of a book reminds us how to rise above and grow during difficult times.
Dinner in Camelot: The Night America’s Greatest Scientists, Writers, and Scholars Partied at the Kennedy White House
By Joseph A. Esposito
A detail-rich account of the evening the country's best and brightest dined with JFK.
(((Semitism))) Being Jewish in America in the Age of Trump
By Jonathan Weisman
A sincere if incomplete account of a pernicious, age-old prejudice still in play today.
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