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Society & Culture
History
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Tom Arnold-Forster, "Walter Lippmann: An Intell...
40 min
152
Micaela Sahhar, "Find Me at the Jaffa Gate: An ...
58 min
153
LaShawn Harris, "Tell Her Story: Eleanor Bumpur...
64 min
154
Brendan Simms, "Hitler: A Global Biography" (Ba...
Simms argues that fears that Germany would lose the economic and demographic competition with Britain and especially the US sat at the heart of Hitler's world view...
26 min
155
Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell, Jr., "Empty ...
54 min
156
Gill Plain, "Agatha Christie: A Very Short Intr...
54 min
157
Alexander Kimel and Martin Kimel, "The Pessimis...
70 min
158
Stacia Kalinoski, Racing Uphill: Confronting a ...
29 min
159
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
160
Thomas Kemple, “Intellectual Work and the Spiri...
69 min
161
Harriet Jacobs, "Incidents in the Life of a Sla...
68 min
162
Inna Faliks, "Weight in the Fingertips: A Music...
42 min
163
W. Henry Sledge, "The Old Breed... The Complete...
58 min
164
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, ...
59 min
165
Raffale Bedarida, "Corrado Cagli: Transatlantic...
110 min
166
Edward Luce, "Zbig: The Life of Zbigniew Brzezi...
40 min
167
Alan M. Wald, "Bohemian Bolsheviks: Dispatches ...
95 min
168
Grace C. Huang, "Chiang Kai-Shek's Politics of ...
44 min
169
Teacher by Teacher: The People Who Change Our L...
47 min
170
Melody Glenn, "Mother of Methadone: A Doctor's ...
40 min
171
Robert Morstein-Marx, "Julius Caesar and the Ro...
An interview with Robert Morstein-Marx
82 min
172
Mark Vernon, "Awake!: William Blake and the Pow...
42 min
173
Glenn Richardson, "WOLSEY" (Routledge, 2020)
41 min
174
Arianne Edmonds, "We Now Belong to Ourselves: J...
48 min
175
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