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David Nasaw on the Last Million

David Nasaw

September 15, 2020

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Renaissance Revealed: The Oppression of Jews in Italy in the 1500s

Catherine Fletcher

September 14, 2020

Cover of The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility

The Biblical Hero: Portraits in Nobility and Fallibility

Cover of Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany

Games of Deception: The True Story of the First US Olympic Basketball Team at the 1936 Olympics in Hitler’s Germany

Andrew Maraniss

Cover of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

Heather Dune Macadam

Cover of The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

The Ratline: The Exalted Life and Mysterious Death of a Nazi Fugitive

Cover of How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

How Magicians Think: Misdirection, Deception, and Why Magic Matters

Cover of A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America

Cover of The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters' Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

The Sisters of Auschwitz: The True Story of Two Jewish Sisters’ Resistance in the Heart of Nazi Territory

Roxane van Iperen

Cover of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918 – 1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust

Jeffrey Veidlinger

Cover of Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Billy Wilder on Assignment: Dispatches from Weimar Berlin and Interwar Vienna

Cover of The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World’s Most Notorious Terrorists

Cover of The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

The Nine: The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of Nazi Germany

Cover of Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding and Ending US Poverty

Joanne Goldblum

Cover of Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Spark: How Genius Ignites, From Child Prodigies to Late Bloomers

Cover of Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel

Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel