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Abe & Fido


"Abe & Fido is entertaining, but it's more than a novelty. Algeo makes the case that Lincoln wa…

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Polymath Ronald A. Reis, author of the forthcoming Henry Ford for Kids, likes to keep busy. The prolific educator has taught middle schoolers, high schoolers, and community college students, and he’s written books about architecture and infrastructure, governmental bodies, electrical engineerin

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Spirit of Place

by Charles MacLean, photography by Lara Platman and Allan MacDonald

“A superb gift for a Scotch connoisseur.” —The Tasting Panel

"This is armchair travel at its best." —The Wall Street Journal

 

 

American Wine

by Tom Acitelli

“An engaging, anecdotal…

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This fall we published two film biographies, The First King of Hollywood: The Life of Douglas Fairbanks (October) and The Ice Cream Blonde: The Whirlwind Life and Mysterious Death of Screwball Comedienne Thelma Todd (November), both of which have been well received by reviewers and the film blogg…

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At the height of her fame in the early 1930s, film star Thelma Todd was connected not only to major directors, actors, and producers but also to mob bosses and thugs who wanted a piece of the action at her renowned restaurant, Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café. So, it’s maybe not a surprise that …

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Like many people, Amy McCullough and her “mate for life” Jimmie Buchanan craved an escape from the daily grind. Amy’s new memoir The Box Wine Sailors: Misadventures of a Broke Young Couple at Sea details how they made their dream come true—the couple bought a shabby 27-foot sailboat, qui…

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On CRP’s radar for this week: knitting, coffee shops, and Terry Gross. #CRPreads

Presently reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me, both for myself and for a group of friends I plan to discuss the book with later this month. It’s obviously not a light read, but it is a valuable o…

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Armed with a PhD in art history and her volunteer work at the Morris-Jumel Mansion in Manhattan, Margaret Oppenheimer proves to be the perfect biographer for Eliza Jumel, a woman of the Early Republic who was born into grinding poverty yet died as one of the wealthiest women in New York. Margaret re…

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Most Halloween book lists, like this excellent list from The Savvy Reader, round up the scariest horror stories, but this week we asked our staff to pick the scariest book they’ve read that’s not a horror story. The responses ranged from pregnancy guides to dystopian novels. If you have a great…

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