From the February 2015 Issue Hi Ho, Rocinante In America: Travels with John Steinbeck By Geert Mak (Translated by Liz Waters) LR
From the November 2010 Issue Bottoms-Up History A Renegade History of the United States: From the Founding Fathers to the Present Day By Thaddeus Russell LR
From the September 2012 Issue Oil & Trouble Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power By Steve Coll LR
From the September 2013 Issue New Deal to Raw Deal The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America By George Packer LR
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