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"A strongly worded polemic on the dangers of defensive exceptionalism."
A prickly, uneven survey of Christian persecution that delves into modern-day fundamentalist intolerance.
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"Indeed, there are plenty of books about Churchill, period. Shelden isn't of the first rank, but the book holds up well against the competition."
Solid biography covering the first four decades of Winston Churchill's life, marked by both ambition and heartbreak.
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"A double-time march through 300 years of Irish soldiering."
From the 1690s Battle of the Boyne to today's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a military historian clocks the various incarnations of the Irish soldier.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Gellately makes a good case for his thesis, but this will be beside the point for many readers who will conclude that Stalin was simply an evil megalomaniac."
What did Stalin want? As the Red Army bestrode Europe in 1945, many Western leaders believed he intended to spread communism across the world. After his death, historians began to doubt this idea, and revisionists even blamed American aggression for the Cold War.
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"A first-rate chronicle of an unexamined subculture."
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Rich in source material and historical detail, the book suffers from the author's pulpy prose style. Still, worth reading for those interested in the lives of Jewish immigrants in New York and the spread of fascism in Eastern Europe in the 1930s."
Faderman (
Naked in the Promised Land, 2004, etc.) reconstructs her mother's experiences as a Jewish immigrant in 1930s New York.
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"Offers no surprising conclusions, but Thompson provides a well-researched, delightfully obsessive story, suitable for Crockett aficionados and neophytes."
For a year, former
Washington Post feature writer Thompson chased the King of the Wild Frontier.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A data-packed, intriguing analysis that is not entirely convincing."
Former
Foreign Policy editor-in-chief Naím (
Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hi-Jacking the Global Economy, 2006, etc.) argues that global institutions of power are losing their ability to command respect.
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"A splendid rendering of the messy human story of our fourth-most populous state."
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"Well-constructed history of the politics and personalities of weather."
Sandlin (
Wicked River: The Mississippi When It Last Ran Wild, 2010, etc.) offers a lively account of early investigators who, through both "grinding stupidity and unaccountable insights," eventually came to understand and learned to coexist with--but never tame--the furious force of tornadoes.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"A tad overlong, but entertaining and readable throughout."
A richly detailed double narrative of the adventures of two young women journalists in a race against time, each striving to be the first to travel around the world in 75 days, outdoing the fictional Phileas Fogg's 80 days.
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Released: March 5, 2013
"Though sometimes dry, a good choice for those who enjoy reading about life's underdogs."
Beginning his account with a daring escape from 1919 Russia to Constantinople, Alexandrov (Slavic Languages and Literature/Yale Univ.;
Limits to Interpretation: The Meanings of Anna Karenina, 2004, etc.) promises a wild life of intrigue, deception and beating the odds for his subject.
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