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All Fall Down
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Mike Lanchin
Do Not Come
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Lawrence Freedman
No Time for Dreams
A Promised Land
By Barack Obama
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Michael Cox
Is He Mad or Just Pretending?
Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World
By H R McMaster
The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir
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The Madman Theory: Trump Takes on the World
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October 2020 Issue
Piers Brendon
Friends with Benefits
The Churchill Complex: The Rise and Fall of the Special Relationship
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Collateral Damage: Britain, America and Europe in the Age of Trump
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July 2020 Issue
Lawrence Rosen
For God & Party
Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump
By Sarah Posner
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July 2020 Issue
Thomas Blaikie
Peace Maker & Flower Arranger
Protocol: The Power of Diplomacy and How to Make It Work for You
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Sophie Duncan
Reader with a Cause
Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
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June 2020 Issue
Laurence Kilpatrick
Control, Alt, Mistreat
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By Susan Fowler
Uncanny Valley
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Leo Robson
His Own Nemesis
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth
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Richard Norton-Taylor
For Your Eyes Only, and Theirs
Snowden’s Box: Trust in the Age of Surveillance
By Jessica Bruder & Dale Maharidge
Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the Surveillance State
By Barton Gellman
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Piers Brendon
The Only Way is Ethics
Do Morals Matter? Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump
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Sam Leith
Another Shandy?
Middlesex
By Jeffrey Eugenides
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John Dugdale
Clinton As Greek Hero
The Human Stain
By Philip Roth
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Mia Levitin
#MeToo in the Making
She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
By Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey
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Stephen Evans
One Day in September
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Michael Burleigh
All the President’s Hitmen
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By Annie Jacobsen
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Ed Vulliamy
The Dealer Will See You Now
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
By Beth Macy
American Overdose: The Opioid Tragedy in Three Acts
By Chris McGreal
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Jurek Martin
Voice of America
The World As It Is: Inside the Obama White House
By Ben Rhodes
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John Dugdale
Chip, Gary and Denise
The Corrections
By Jonathan Franzen
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