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Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimis...
70 min
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Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a ...
29 min
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Mark Braude, "The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon o...
This unexpected and absorbing book delves into the story of Napoleon’s exile on the island of Elba following his abdication in 1814...
58 min
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Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
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Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Sla...
68 min
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Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
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W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete...
58 min
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Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic...
110 min
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Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, ...
59 min
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Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezi...
40 min
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Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
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Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of ...
44 min
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Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our L...
47 min
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Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's ...
40 min
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Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Ro...
An interview with Robert Morstein-Marx
82 min
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Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Pow...
42 min
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Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J...
48 min
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Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
41 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Sto...
"The Perfect Fascist" pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall...
60 min
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Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Rivier...
Joan Riviere (1883-1962) is best known for her role in promoting the ideas of others. She came to prominence in the world of psychoanalysis as Freud’s favorite translator and Melanie Klein’s earliest and most loyal supporter...
54 min
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Julian Jackson, "De Gaulle" (Harvard UP, 2018)
If Sir Winston Churchill was (in the words of Harold Macmillan) the "greatest Englishman In history", then Charles de Gaulle was without a doubt, the greatest Frenchman since Napoleon Bonaparte...
67 min
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Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoi...
50 min
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M’hamed Oualdi, "A Slave between Empires: A Tra...
Oualdi explores the life and afterlife of one figure, the manumitted slave and Tunisian dignitary Husayn Ibn ‘Abdallah...
38 min
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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuc...
An interview with Frank L. Jones
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