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Released: May 21, 2013
"Brown's wit and extensive research make this a solid book of history, sociology and literature, as well as a great travel guide."
The centuries-long story of the George Inn, which may not have been Shakespeare's local, but proves fascinating nonetheless.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"A difficult, unsettling and ultimately disappointing critique of the American worldview."
"[E]xceptionalism is a national impediment America can no longer afford," declares journalist Smith (
Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post–Western World, 2010, etc.) in this challenge to Americans' view of themselves.
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Released: May 21, 2013
"Will open interesting doors for casual readers and provide plenty of debate fodder for military-history buffs."
How would the world be different if certain critical battles had gone the other way? Two top military historians offer answers.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 21, 2013
"Well-balanced, though not likely to sway either detractors or admirers one way or another. We look forward to the planned sequel, covering the years of Thatcher's political decline."
The authorized, remarkably evenhanded biography of the grimly divisive, late Iron Lady of Britain.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 20, 2013
"Gripping, emotional depictions of the conflicts that rage in the interior and exterior worlds of a spy--and of a journalist."
A former
Newsweek foreign correspondent reviews his often perplexing experiences as the son of a CIA operative.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 15, 2013
"Robust, memorable reading that will appeal to Civil War buffs, professional historians and general readers alike."
A stirring account of the "greatest and most violent collision the North American continent [has] ever seen," just in time for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.
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Released: May 14, 2013
"Even at the time, many counseled patience and denounced government aid as socialistic, but few readers of this gripping, painful account of third-world–level poverty and despair will agree that it is the natural order."
Historian Golay (
The Tide of Empire: America's March to the Pacific, 2003, etc.) has mined the thousands of letters between Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickock (1893–1968) and Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962), as well as Hickok's reports, to present an unexpectedly horrific picture of America during a terrible time.
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Released: May 14, 2013
"An absorbing, persuasive reminder that science is not a direct march to the truth."
Astrophysicist and popular science writer Livio (
Is God a Mathematician?, 2009, etc.) delivers entertaining accounts of how five celebrated scientists went wrong.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
A charming series of letters from a young Walter Cronkite (1916–2009) to his wife, Betsy, chronicles his rising star as a war correspondent.
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NONFICTION
Released: May 7, 2013
"An astute assessment of the efforts of a group of historic newsmakers."
In a highly focused work,
Foreign Affairs deputy editor Caryl finds that the year 1979 engendered a remarkable crop of history-changing leaders.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"Fraser's study of the "reasonable" confrontation between Commons, Lords and Crown is engaging, elaborate and elegantly wrought."
The dame of British historical biography picks her way gingerly through the cluttered details of Parliamentary reform.
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Released: May 7, 2013
"A swift, vibrant account of the accidents, intricacies and insanities of war."
Veteran
Washington Post military reporter Vogel (
The Pentagon, 2007), returns with a brisk chronicle of the critical closing months of the War of 1812--specifically, the British attacks on Washington and Baltimore.
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