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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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Released: March 5, 2013
"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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Released: March 5, 2013
"A splendid rendering of the messy human story of our fourth-most populous state."
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Released: March 5, 2013
"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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Released: March 5, 2013
"With documents amply provided at the close of the text, Raphael provides a truly accessible teaching tool."
In his latest populist reality check, Raphael (
Mr. President: How and Why the Founders Created a Chief Executive, 2012, etc.) demonstrates how objectively studying the original broken political system lends insight into ours.
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Released: March 4, 2013
"Although little was at stake and everyone knows the outcome, Mires works hard and mostly successfully to hold her readers' interest in the energetic, often-quaint public-relation antics of the 1940s."
Mires (History/Rutgers Univ., Camden;
Independence Hall in American Memory, 2002) delivers an amusing account of the intense, if not world-shaking competition for the U.N. headquarters.
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Released: March 4, 2013
"A useful, cogent examination of why, despite some folly and ill judgment, America continues to be the one country the world looks to when in crisis or need of support."
A reasoned argument for the universally appealing power of American ideals over imperial might.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"Some will quarrel with aspects of Katznelson's analysis, few with his widely allusive, elegant prose."
A wholly new approach to the New Deal takes history we thought we knew and makes it even richer and more complex.
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Released: March 1, 2013
"An exciting reminder of how Vatican machinations continue to haunt history."
The story of the race to compose a last top-secret encyclical against Nazi racism before the death of Pope Pius XI.
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