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James Wham
Riddle of the Sands
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Rory Mccarthy
The Case of the Vanishing Missiles
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By Steve Coll
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Michael Taylor
The Long Road to Emancipation
The Reckoning: From the Second Slavery to Abolition, 1776–1888
By Robin Blackburn
Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade
By Hannah Durkin
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Stephen Bates
Embarrassment & Riches
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
By Anderson Cooper & Katherine Howe
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August 2023 Issue
Tim Stanley
Look Out You Commies!
Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right
By Matthew Dallek
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August 2023 Issue
Will Wiles
Where the Wheeled Things Are
Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World
By Henry Grabar
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June 2023 Issue
Alan Ryan
Sparks of Revolution
Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness: Britain and the American Dream (1740–1776)
By Peter Moore
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June 2023 Issue
Tim Stanley
In God He Trusted
King: The Life of Martin Luther King
By Jonathan Eig
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March 2023 Issue
Angus Reilly
Better Dead than Red
G-Man: J Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century
By Beverly Gage
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Adrian Nathan West
National Born Killers
Bloodbath Nation
By Paul Auster
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David Gelber
Coming from America
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
By Caroline Dodds Pennock
September 2022 Issue
Michael Cox
From Yorktown to Ukraine
The Four Ages of American Foreign Policy: Weak Power, Great Power, Superpower, Hyperpower
By Michael Mandelbaum
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William Kuhn
Sun, Sand and Speedos
Fire Island: Love, Loss and Liberation in an American Paradise
By Jack Parlett
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July 2022 Issue
Alex von Tunzelmann
Southern Comforter
The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
By Sarah Churchwell
June 2022 Issue
Alan Ryan
Oui, the People
The Man who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
By Olivier Zunz
May 2022 Issue
Lucy Lethbridge
Hitching Skirt and Wagon
Brave Hearted: The Dramatic Story of Women of the American West
By Katie Hickman
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Stephen Amidon
The Irresistible Call of Cannon Fire
Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane
By Paul Auster
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Rana Mitter
Day of Infamy
Hitler’s American Gamble: Pearl Harbor and the German March to Global War
By Brendan Simms & Charlie Laderman
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Edward Vallance
The Trials of Goody Parsons
The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By Malcolm Gaskill
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Anne Applebaum
At Least He Seems Likely to Win a Second Term
The President They Deserve
By Martin Walker
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