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Fishing: How the Sea Fed Civilization
By Brian Fagan
A distinguished observer navigates an ocean of piscine-related facts.
Genealogically speaking, everyone's a mongrel.
How a hamlet on the Thames unfurled its wings in the 16th century.
American Fire: Love, Arson, and Life in a Vanishing Land
By Monica Hesse
This exploration of the haunted, burning heart of rural America leaves much unsaid about its soul.
Leonardo Da Vinci
By Walter Isaacson
A captivating study of the towering Renaissance innovator and genius.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
By Robert Dallek
This new work charts FDR’s heroics and weaknesses but offers no fresh insights into America’s “third-greatest” president.
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve
By Stephen Greenblatt
The influential theorist who founded new historicism delivers his take on the West’s origin story.
Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror
By Victor Sebestyen
This “balanced, scholarly, and highly readable” new work captures the history-altering Bolshevik’s human side.
