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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...
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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...
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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...
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Cynthia Blakeley, "The Innermost House: A Memoi...
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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...
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Frank L. Jones, "Sam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuc...
An interview with Frank L. Jones
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David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six E...
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Brendan O'Meara, "The Front Runner: The Life of...
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Rosemary Goring, "Exile: The Captive Years of M...
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Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ
Bruce Springsteen was keenly aware and excited by the sounds of the CBGBs scene during the Seventies. With his own bands, the Boss performed in the same venues associated with punk rock and ultimately wrote songs for Patti Smith and the Ramones. Yet Springsteen’s sound has remained distinct from punk rock as it emanated from New York. In the seventh episode of Soundscapes NYC, host Ryan Purcell talks with Bruce Springsteen biographer Jim Cullen and Melissa Ziobro the head curator of the Bruce...
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John Eldevik, "Reading Prester John: Cultural F...
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Alex Vernon, "Peace Is a Shy Thing: The Life an...
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John DeVore, "Theatre Kids: A True Tale of Off-...
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Jennifer Kabat, "Nightshining: A Memoir in Four...
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John P. Gribbin, "Gribbin: A Family History of ...
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Keith Merith, "A Darker Shade of Blue: A Police...
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Zachary Gorman, "The Young Menzies: Success, Fa...
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Louis P. Masur, "A Journey North: Jefferson, Ma...
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Nubar Hovsepian, "Edward Said: The Politics of ...
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Kay Sohini, "This Beautiful, Ridiculous City: A...
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Christopher Clarey, "The Warrior: Rafael Nadal ...
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The Truth About Bullshit: Celebrating the 20th ...
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Wendy Doniger, "An American Girl in India: Lett...
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Kevin J. Hayes, "Undaunted Mind: The Intellectu...
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David P. Celani, "Ronald Fairbairn: A Contempor...
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