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The Genius of Their Age
By S. Frederick Starr
Meet Central Asia’s original polymaths.
Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
By John Grisham and Jim McCloskey
A bleak look at the blatant malfeasance in our criminal-justice system.
The Icon & the Idealist: Margaret Sanger, Mary Ware Dennett, and the Rivalry that Brought Birth Control to America
By Stephanie Gorton
The road to accessible contraception was long and bumpy.
A rollicking look at things that go bump in the Yuletide night.
American Eldercide: How It Happened, How to Prevent It
By Margaret Morganroth Gullette
A sporadically persuasive jeremiad on what went wrong during the pandemic.
Can the failed promise of corporate sustainability be replaced by meaningful action?
The Money Kings
By Daniel Schulman
An able, if incomplete, look at Manhattan’s long-ago financiers.
Ingenious: A Biography of Benjamin Franklin, Scientist
By Richard Munson
A mesmerizing account of the endlessly curious Founding Father.
