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Both maudlin and Machiavellian, Richard Nixon transcended his origins as a shy outcast in Washington society to become a leader capable of great bravery and extraordinary deviousness. Award-winning author Evan Thomas peels back the layers on the nation’s 37th president, delivering a fascinating portrait of one of American history’s most infamous, paradoxical, and enigmatic politicians.

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Between 1971 and 1973, President Nixon’s infamous voice-activated taping system secretly recorded 3,700 hours of unfiltered conversation within executive offices, including the Oval Office. Historian Douglas Brinkley, who was involved with the transcription project, provides a compelling overview of the tapes and how they offer an unprecedented glimpse into Nixon’s intellectual yet flawed presidency.

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In conjunction with the release of her new memoir, The Lost Landscape: A Writer's Coming of Age, award-winning author Joyce Carol Oates—known for her raw and poignant writing which often explores themes of class tensions, adolescence, violence, and unapologetic portraits of human nature—reflects upon her prolific career and her coming-of-age as a writer in rural western New York

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Associate Justice Stephen Breyer examines the work of the nation’s highest court in our increasingly interconnected and globalized world—a world in which both public and private activity has obliged the Court to consider foreign events, laws, and practices. From copyright law to domestic relations to the interpretation of international treaty obligations, Justice Breyer illuminates how American jurists are becoming “constitutional diplomats.”

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Built beginning in 1858, Central Park gave all New Yorkers, whatever their class, their own “private country estate” where they could leave the city behind and commune with nature. Designed as a complete artifice—it is naturalistic, not natural—it turned the democratic ideal into a brilliant, three-dimensional concept of city planning as well as a transcendental vision that would civilize urban life.

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At a time when Jews represented less than one-half of one percent of the American population, Abraham Lincoln became an advocate for Jewish equality and acceptance. Two celebrated historians reveal how Lincoln’s remarkable relationship with American Jews impacted his presidency, his policy decisions, and, as a result, broadened America.

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