Book Review: The Templars
/The Knights Templar have been captured on stage, page, and screen countless times; a new book separates history from legend.
Read MoreBook Review: iGen
/Are cell phones and 'smart' technology rotting the minds of today's young people? A controversial new book makes the case.
Read MoreBook Review: Out of China
/The roots of new Chinese nationalism extend back through well over a century of foreign meddling, as a comprehensive new history shows.
Read MoreBook Review: The Cold War
/A massive new study looks at the Cold War as a world war, touching - and often toppling - governments far from Washington or Moscow.
Read MoreBook Review: The Witch
/Paganism scholar Ronald Hutton's fascinating new book delves into the long history of the witch in human societies.
Read MoreBook Review: The Republic For Which It Stands
/America in the sordid wilderness years between the end of the Civil War and the dawn of the 20th century is the focus of the newest volume in the mighty Oxford History of the United States.
Read MoreBook Review: Bush and Cheney
/One of the most outspoken critics of the official version of 9-11 now writes a wide-ranging assessment of the long-term consequences of the Bush-Cheney administration.
Read MoreBook Review: The Riviera at War
/An impressive new history details the many sides of the fighting that came to the French Riviera during the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Midnight in the Pacific
/A key turning-point in the Battle of the Pacific gets a richly anecdotal new history.
Read MoreBook Review: Their Backs Against the Sea
/A ferocious and largely forgotten island battle marked a key point in the Pacific theater of the Second World War. A new book tells the story of the Battle of Saipan.
Read MoreBook Review: The Treaty of Versailles
/A new short treatment of the pivotal Treaty of Versailles by one of the greatest working historians of the First World War.
Read MoreBook Review: In the Highest Degree Tragic
/The doomed valor of the small, scrappy US Asiatic Fleet in the Pacific Theater, often overlooked in WWII histories, now gets an elaborate new chronicle.
Read MoreBook Review: The Allies Strike Back
/A vivid new history recounts the resurgence of the Allies against the Germany war machine during the highest pitch of the Second World War
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Royal
/A sharp new history recounts the pitch-and-tumble fortunes of York and Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreBook Review: The Best Land Under Heaven
/A thorough and searching new book explores not only the tragic fate of the Donner Party but the dreams that motivated them in the first place.
Read MoreBook Review: Jane Austen, The Secret Radical
/A hugely readable new book examines the progressive social thinker behind the most beloved novels of English literature.
Read MoreBook Review: Sting Like a Bee
/The greatest boxer of all time was once involved in a years-long battle ... with the US government. A hugely readable new book tells the story.
Read MoreBook Review: He's Got Rhythm
/The legendary hoofer and showman Gene Kelly gets a big, winning new biography
Read MoreBook Review: What Algorithms Want
/A cogent, sobering new book looks at the computer conversations that increasingly shape every aspect of our lives.
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