From the September 2020 Issue Crocodile Diplomacy Ten Days in Harlem: Fidel Castro and the Making of the 1960s By Simon Hall
From the September 2019 Issue Political Animals Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers By David Runciman LR
From the August 2018 Issue Get with the Programme 21 Lessons for the 21st Century By Yuval Noah Harari
From the February 2015 Issue Big Game Hunter When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995–2010 By Tony Judt (Edited by Jennifer Homans)
From the November 2014 Issue The Curtain Falls 1946: The Making of the Modern World By Victor Sebestyen LR
From the June 2011 Issue In Congress One Nation Under Sex: How the Private Lives of Presidents, First Ladies and Their Lovers Changed the Course of American History By Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach, PhD LR
From the February 2011 Issue The Beat Goes On Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture By Alice Echols LR
From the July 2010 Issue Streets of Shame Capital Affairs: London and the Making of the Permissive Society By Frank Mort LR
From the May 2010 Issue All Change, Please No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain By Paul Addison LR
From the February 2010 Issue Go West Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power By Bruce Cumings LR
From the March 2009 Issue Little Boy From Germany The Kissinger Saga: Walter and Henry Kissinger – Two Brothers from Germany By Evi Kurz LR
From the September 2009 Issue When the Lights Went Out Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia By Francis Wheen LR
From the July 2009 Issue History of the Present Facts Are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name By Timothy Garton Ash LR
From the February 2009 Issue American Idol Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln By Doris Kearns Goodwin LR
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