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Book Reviews

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Riding the Steppes

A 1,000-mile odyssey across Mongolia on horseback

Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books

Book Review: Veiled Threat

Reading Lolita in Tehran

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James Smithson’s Legacy

The Stranger and the Statesman: James Smithson, John Quincy Adams, and the Making of America’s Greatest Museum

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Journal of the Plague Years

Two courageous pioneers showed how a fearsome scourge could be defeated

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Once Upon a Time

Children’s books by celebrities are as old as the Dead Sea Scrolls. Here are our favorites

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Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002

Smithsonian Notable Books for Children 2002

A conference session including Clement Attlee, Ernest Bevin, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Joseph Stalin, William D. Leahy, Joseph E. Davies, James F. Byrnes, and Harry S. Truman.

Dividing the Spoils

Michael Beschloss re-creates the 1945 Potsdam Conference at which Harry Truman found his presidential voice and determined the shape of postwar Europe

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Torpedoed!

Historian Diana Preston presents findings about the Lusitania and draws on recently discovered interviews to bring the drama to life

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Review of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War

Review of GERMS: Biological Weapons and America’s Secret War

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