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September 2015
Henry Kissinger was often compared to Machiavelli but Niall Ferguson shows he was, at heart, an idealist
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September 2015
Efraim Karsh's book on the creation of the modern Middle East is timely but overstates his case
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September 2015
Jochen Bleichen's biography of the Emperor is monumental but highly readable
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September 2015
How the New York Public Library weathered a near-death experience
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