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Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons: The Lives of Jennie Jerome Churchill and Sara Delano Roosevelt
By Charlotte Gray
An able corrective to the notion that great men are self-made.
Two Roads Home: Hitler, Stalin and the Miraculous Survival of My Family
By Daniel Finkelstein
A harrowing account of escaping the Nazis and the Gulag.
Foreign Bodies: Pandemics, Vaccines, and the Health of Nations
By Simon Schama
Anti-science hysteria is nothing new. (Ivermectin, anyone?)
The Subversive Seventies
By Michael Hardt
An erudite exploration of a surprisingly pivotal decade.
Wilder
By Millie Kerr
Can tales of species restoration spark global environmental recovery?
Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power
By Leah Redmond Chang
An absorbing look at how a trio of monarchs asserted influence.
Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
By Victor Sebestyen
A fascinating chronicle of Hungary’s storied capital.
Brooding Over Bloody Revenge: Enslaved Women’s Lethal Resistance
By Nikki M. Taylor
A scorching, stunning look at private revolts against bondage.
