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The rollicking tale of a Gatsby-esque rake who delighted in diamonds.
Vicious and Immoral: Homosexuality, the American Revolution, and the Trials of Robert Newburgh
By John Gilbert McCurdy
How an 18th-century buggery charge dovetailed with the fight for freedom.
The Wounded World
By Chad L. Williams
An outstanding account of the eminent intellectual’s literary Waterloo.
A tour-de-force look at the doyennes of designer couture.
A Most Tolerant Little Town
By Rachel Louise Martin
How Clinton, Tennessee, responded to integration.
Shadow Men: The Tangled Story of Murder, Media, and Privilege That Scandalized Jazz Age America
By James Polchin
An expertly spun tale of unequal justice in the 1920s.
The CIA: An Imperial History
By Hugh Wilford
What did the spy service learn from colonialism?
The Supermajority
By Michael Waldman
Chronicling a right-wing cabal’s fracturing of norms in the U.S.
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