Monday, March 19, 2018

The Wars of Watergate. Author: Stanley I. Kutler.

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The Wars of Watergate is an examination of a president and an event that profoundly, lastingly eroded public trust in both the Executive ...
Saturday, March 3, 2018

Strapless. John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X. Author: Deborah Davis.

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Strapless is a story about John Singer Sargent’s famous portrait of socialite, Amelie Gautreau. While it provides biographical background...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

For the Soul of France. Culture Wars in the Age of Dreyfus. Author: Frederick Brown.

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There is value in learning about the past for its own sake. But when a situation in history corresponds to one in the reader’s current soci...
Friday, January 12, 2018

A Nation Rising. Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America’s Hidden History. Author: Kenneth C. Davis.

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Kenneth Davis continues an enterprise begun in his bestselling America’s Hidden History : dispelling historical myths. He does so in a simp...
Sunday, December 31, 2017

Art and Politics in the Weimar Period. Author: John Willett

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John Willett begins his Art and Politics in the Weimar Period , with an inscription in a book that haunts him. It reads “Memento of an afte...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

A Cross of Thorns. The Enslavement of California’s Indians by the Spanish Missions. Author: Elias Castillo.

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On September 25, 1988, Pope John Paul II beatified Father Junipero Serra, the founder and first administrator of California’s mission syste...
Monday, November 20, 2017

Transgender History. The Roots of Today’s Revolution. Author: Susan Stryker.

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Professor Susan Stryker has written a heavily revised version of her Transgender History . It is practically a new book. Just released in N...