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Portrait of an Enigma

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

by Joseph J. Ellis


Peking, Hong Kong, & the US

The Coming Conflict with China

by Richard Bernstein and Ross H. Munro


The Way They Live Now

Resurrection: The Struggle for a New Russia

by David Remnick


How It Grew

The Rise of Western Christendom: Triumph and Diversity, AD 200-1000

by Peter Brown


John Wayne Agonistes

John Wayne’s America: The Politics of Celebrity

by Garry Wills


Cruel & Unusual Punishment

Since electric shocks can be applied repeatedly, the only restraints on their sadistic repetition are the training, supervision, and ultimately the discretion of the officer involved. There is reason to suspect, however, that such discretion may decline in direct proportion to the increasing physical distance between operator and victim.

Between the Acts

Bloomsbury Recalled

by Quentin Bell

Lutyens and the Edwardians: An English Architect and his Clients

by Jane Brown

Edwardians: London Life and Letters, 1900-1914

by John Paterson

On or About December 1910: Early Bloomsbury and its Intimate World

by Peter Stansky


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