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The Wordy Shipmates
By Sarah Vowell
three-stars
History

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
By Howard Blum
three-and-half-stars
History

The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
By Annette Gordon-Reed
four-stars
History

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1918
By Mark Thompson
History

The Irregulars: Roald Dahl and the British Spy Ring in Wartime Washington
By Jennet Conant
three-and-half-stars
Thriller: Spy, Military, Tech, History

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain
By Christopher Benfey
four-stars
History

Rome 1960: The Olympics that Changed the World
By David Maraniss
three-and-half-stars
History

The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
By Edward Dolnick
four-stars
True Crime, History

One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War
By Michael Dobbs
four-stars
History

The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
By Ron Chernow
History