Garry Wills is Professor of History Emeritus at Northwestern. His most recent book, Font of Life: Ambrose, Augustine, and the Mystery of Baptism, was published in April 2012.
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Bullying the Nuns
June 7, 2012
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America’s Nastiest Blood Feud
May 24, 2012
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
by Robert A. Caro
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Shakespeare and Verdi in the Theater
November 24, 2011
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‘All Things Shining’: An Exchange
May 26, 2011
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Superficial & Sublime?
April 7, 2011
All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly
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Verdi & Boito: The Great Collaboration
March 24, 2011
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His Finest Hour
February 10, 2011
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Outstripping the News
November 25, 2010
40: A Doonesbury Retrospective
by G.B. Trudeau
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The Strange Success of Jimmy Carter
October 28, 2010
White House Diary
by Jimmy Carter
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Bernard Knox (1914–2010)
September 30, 2010
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On David Levine (1926–2009)
February 11, 2010
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A One-Term President?: The Choice
December 3, 2009
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Entangled Giant
October 8, 2009
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Conservatives: The Tanenhaus Taxonomy
September 24, 2009
The Death of Conservatism
by Sam Tanenhaus
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Lincoln, Jefferson, & Blacks
July 16, 2009
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Lincoln’s Black History
June 11, 2009
Lincoln on Race and Slavery
edited and with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr., and coedited by Donald Yacovone
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The Voice of the Eagle
May 14, 2009
An Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles, Orestes by Euripides
translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
An Oresteia: Part 1: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos, Elektra by Sophokles directed by Brian Kulick and Gisela Cardenas
An Oresteia: Part 2: Orestes by Euripides directed by Paul Lazar, with choreography by Annie-B Parson
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Closer Than Ever to Vergil
March 12, 2009
The Aeneid
by Vergil, translated from the Latin by Sarah Ruden
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Why the Government Can Legally Lie
February 12, 2009
In the Name of National Security: Unchecked Presidential Power and the Reynolds Case
by Louis Fisher
Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets
by Barry Siegel
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He Interviewed the Nation
December 18, 2008
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A Fateful Election
November 6, 2008
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Two Speeches on Race
May 1, 2008
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Romney and JFK: The Difference
January 17, 2008
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The Gates of Paradise
December 20, 2007
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Dark Victories
December 20, 2007
The Roman Triumph
by Mary Beard
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The Loveliest Doors
November 8, 2007
The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Gary M. Radke, with essays by Andrew Butterfield and eleven other contributors.
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An American Hero
July 19, 2007
William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
by Robert D. Richardson
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‘We Are All Romans Now’
June 28, 2007
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We Are All Romans Now
May 31, 2007
Art of the Classical World in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greece, Cyprus, Etruria, Rome
by Carlos A. Picón,Joan R. Mertens, Elizabeth J. Milleker, Christopher S. Lightfoot, and Seán Hemingway, with contributions from Richard De Puma
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A Country Ruled by Faith
November 16, 2006
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‘Manliness’
September 21, 2006
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Mousiness
June 8, 2006
Manliness
by Harvey C. Mansfield
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An American Iliad
April 6, 2006
At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68
by Taylor Branch
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Jimmy Carter & the Culture of Death
February 9, 2006
Our Endangered Values: America’s Moral Crisis
by Jimmy Carter
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Henry Adams’s Theme
December 15, 2005
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Fringe Government
October 6, 2005
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The Wise Warrior
March 10, 2005
George Washington Remembers: Reflections on the French and Indian War
edited by Fred Anderson
His Excellency: George Washington
by Joseph J. Ellis
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‘Arguing about War’
December 16, 2004
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What Is a Just War?
November 18, 2004
Arguing About War
by Michael Walzer
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The Election and America’s Future
November 4, 2004
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The Tragedy of Bill Clinton
August 12, 2004
My Life
by Bill Clinton
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Tocqueville’s Heart
August 12, 2004
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Lessons of a Master
June 24, 2004
The Genuine Article: A Historian Looks at Early America
by Edmund S. Morgan
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Did Tocqueville ‘Get’ America?
April 29, 2004
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The Legion of Christ
April 29, 2004
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God in the Hands of Angry Sinners
April 8, 2004
The Passion of the Christ a film directed by Mel Gibson
Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II
by Jason Berry and Gerald Renner
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The Negro President
November 6, 2003
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‘Living History’
October 23, 2003
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‘Living History’
October 9, 2003
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Looking for the Lost Greeks
October 9, 2003
The Archaeology of Nostalgia: How the Greeks Re-created Their Mythical Past
by John Boardman
The Parthenon
by Mary Beard
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Lightning Rod
August 14, 2003
Living History
by Hillary Rodham Clinton
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High Fidelity
December 5, 2002
The Courage to Be Catholic: Crisis, Reform, and the Future of the Church
by George Weigel
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Has the Pope Been a Failure?
November 21, 2002
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A Democratic Church?
November 21, 2002
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Priests and Boys: An Exchange
September 26, 2002
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The Bishops at Bay
August 15, 2002
Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
by the Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
Conclave: The Politics, Personalities, and Process of the Next Papal Election
by John L. Allen Jr.
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Priests and Boys
June 13, 2002
Intimate Enemies: Moral Panics in Contemporary Great Britain
by Philip Jenkins
Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet
by Philip Jenkins
Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
by Philip Jenkins
Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children from Sex
by Judith Levine, with a foreword by Dr. Joycelyn M. Elders
Goodbye, Good Men: How Liberals Brought Corruption into the Catholic Church
by Michael S. Rose
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Scandal
May 23, 2002
The Changing Face of the Priesthood: A Reflection on the Priest’s Crisis of Soul
by Donald B. Cozzens
Don’t Tell: The Sexual Abuse of Boys by Michel Dorais, translated by Isabel Denholm Meyer
The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality
by Eugene Kennedy
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American Jesuits
April 25, 2002
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Jesuits in Disarray
March 28, 2002
Passionate Uncertainty: Inside the American Jesuits
by Peter McDonough and Eugene C. Bianchi
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The Dramaturgy of Death
June 21, 2001
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A Tale of Two Cardinals
April 26, 2001
Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin edited by Alphonse P. Spilly, C.PP.S.
Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican’s Enforcer of the Faith John L. Allen Jr.
The Spirit of the Liturgy
Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, translated from the German by John Saward
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The Election Mess
February 8, 2001
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Honorable Man
November 16, 2000
The Gentleman from New York: Daniel Patrick Moynihan
by Godfrey Hodgson
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Fatima: ‘The Third Secret’
August 10, 2000
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Camping in Washington
June 15, 2000
Delancey’s Way
by James McCourt
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The Vatican Regrets
May 25, 2000
Memory and Reconciliation: The Church and the Faults of the Past for the Doctrine of the Faith, December 1999 by Rev. Christopher Begg, Msgr. Bruno Forte, Rev. Sebastian Karotemprel S.D.B., Msgr. Roland Minnerath, Rev. Thomas Norris, Rev. Rafael Salazar Cárdenas M.Sp.S., Msgr. Anton Strukelj. Issued from the Vatican by Cardinal Ratzinger of the Congregation. Avai
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Storm Over Jefferson
March 9, 2000
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Waiting for Bobby
February 10, 2000
In Love with Night: The American Romance with Robert Kennedy
by Ronald Steel
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The People’s Choice
August 12, 1999
I Ain’t Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
by Jesse Ventura
Body Slam: The Jesse Ventura Story
by Jake Tapper
Me, by Jimmy (Big Boy) Valente, Governor of Minnesota
as told to Garrison Keillor
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A Reader’s Guide to the Century
July 15, 1999
The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
by Eric Hobsbawm
Modern Times, Modern Places
by Peter Conrad
A History of the World in the Twentieth Century
by J.A.S. Grenville
The Century by Peter Jennings, by Todd Brewster
The American Century by Harold Evans, with Gail Buckland, by Kevin Baker
The Oxford History of the Twentieth Century
edited by Michael Howard, by William Roger Louis
The Columbia History of the Twentieth Century edited by Richard W. Bulliet
Why the American Century?
by Olivier Zunz
The Twentieth Century: A World History
by Clive Ponting
Our Times: The Illustrated History of the 20th Century
edited by Lorraine Glennon
Chronicle of the 20th Century edited by Clifton Daniel, by John W. Kirshon, foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., by An updated edition will be published in November.
National Geographic Eyewitness to the 20th Century
by National Geographic Society
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Athens on Fifth Avenue
June 10, 1999
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Augustine’s Magical Decade
May 6, 1999
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Fire & Ice
March 4, 1999
Gabriele D’Annunzio: Defiant Archangel
by John Woodhouse
Cabiria e il suo tempo edited by Paolo Bertetto, by Gianni Rondolino
Griffithiana: The Journal of Film History edited by Davide Turconi
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The Great Black Hope
February 4, 1999
King of the World: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero
by David Remnick
More Than a Champion: The Style of Muhammad Ali
by Jan Philipp Reemtsma, translated by John E. Woods
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Bill & the Emperor
October 8, 1998
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How Odd of God
August 13, 1998
Jews: The Essence and Character of a People
by Arthur Hertzberg, by Aron Hirt-Manheimer
Portrait of American Jews: The Last Half of the Twentieth Century
by Samuel C. Heilman
The Vanishing American Jew: In Search of Jewish Identity for the Next Century Schuster.
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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Slumming
July 16, 1998
Bulworth a film by and with Warren Beatty
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Those Were the Days
June 25, 1998
The Children
by David Halberstam
Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement
by John Lewis, with Michael D'Orso
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The Vatican Monarchy
February 19, 1998
Nearer, My God: An Autobiography of Faith by William F. Buckley Jr.
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara by David I. Kertzer
Mary Through the Centuries: Her Place in the History of Culture by Jaroslav Pelikan
Man of the Century: The Life and Times of Pope John Paul II by Jonathan Kwitny
Saints and Sinners: A History of the Popes by Eamon Duffy
Lives of the Popes: The Pontiffs from Saint Peter to John Paul II by Richard P. McBrien
The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism by Michael W. Cuneo
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A Language of Their Own
January 15, 1998
Interntional Silent Film Festival Pordenone, Italy
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A Second Assassination
December 18, 1997
The Dark Side of Camelot by Seymour M. Hersh
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Terror in a Small Town
October 23, 1997
Big Trouble: A Murder in a Small Western Town Sets Off a Struggle for the Soul of America by J. Anthony Lukas
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The Front Page
September 25, 1997
The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick: 1880-1955 by Richard Norton Smith
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American Adam
March 6, 1997
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The Real Scandal
February 20, 1997
Behind the Oval Office: Winning the Presidency in the Nineties by Dick Morris
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The Art & Politics of the Nativity
December 19, 1996
The Angel Tree: A Christmas Celebration (1993) by Linn Howard, by Mary Jane Pool
Scene e scenografie del presepe Napoletano (1991) by Gennaro Borrelli
Il presepio: Otto secoli di storia, arte, tradizione (1995) by Pietro Gargano
El belén: Historia, tradición y actualidad (1992) by Pablo Martínez-Palomero
Il presepe Napoletano del settecento (1995) by Teodoro Fittipaldi
Venite Adoremus: Note sul presepe Genovese (1993) catalog of the 1993-1994 exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa.
Il presepe riscoperto: Un “unicum” Napoletano del seicento a Genova (1989) by Giuliana Biavati, by Giulio Sommariva
Il presepe Italiano (1993) by Pietro Gasperini
Il presepe Napoletano (1990) by Gennaro Borrelli
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Hating Hillary
November 14, 1996
The Seduction of Hillary Rodham by David Brock
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A Tale of Two Cities
October 3, 1996
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A Tale of Three Leaders
September 19, 1996
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America by Andrew Young
Prophet of Rage: A Life of Louis Farrakhan and His Nation by Arthur J. Magida
In the Name of Elijah Muhammad: Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam by Mattias Gardell
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson by Marshall Frady
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The Would-Be Progressives
July 11, 1996
They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era by E.J. Dionne Jr.
In Defense of Government: The Fall and Rise of Public Trust
by Jacob Weisberg
Left for Dead: The Life, Death, and Possible Resurrection of Progressive Politics in America by Michael Tomasky
Values Matter Most: How Republicans or Democrats or a Third Party Can Win and Renew the American Way of Life by Ben J. Wattenberg
The New Promise of American Life
edited by Lamar Alexander, edited by Chester E. Finn Jr.
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What Happened to the Revolution?
June 6, 1996
Showdown: The Struggle Between the Gingrich Congress and the Clinton White House by Elizabeth Drew
Storming the Gates: Protest Politics and the Republican Revival by Dan Balz, by Ronald Brownstein
‘Tell Newt to Shut Up’
by David Maraniss, by Michael Weisskopf
Dirty Little Secrets: The Persistence of Corruption in American Politics by Larry J. Sabate, by Glenn R. Simpson
The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point
by Haynes Johnson, by David S. Broder
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The Clinton Scandals
April 18, 1996
Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries by James B Stewart
Madhouse: The Private Turmoil of Working for the President by Jeffrey H Birnbaum
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Preliminary Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation
Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Whitewater Development Company, Inc.: A Supplemental Report to the Resolution Trust Corporation Prepared by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP, San Francisco, California, with financial and economic analysis support from Tuc
A Report on Certain Real Estate Loans and Investments Made by Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan and Related Entities
A Report on the Rose Law Firm’s Conduct of Accounting Malpractice Litigation Pertaining to Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Prepared for Resolution Trust Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
A Supplemental Report on the Representation of Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan by the Rose Law Firm Prepared for Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation by Pillsbury Madison & Sutro LLP
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To Keep and Bear Arms: An Exchange
November 16, 1995
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To Keep and Bear Arms
September 21, 1995
Second Amendment Symposium Issue Tennessee Law Review, Spring 1995
A Right to Bear Arms: State and Federal Bills of Rights and Constitutional Guarantees
by Stephen P. Halbrook
To Keep and Bear Arms: The Origins of an Anglo-American Right by Joyce Lee Malcolm
Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy
An Argument, Shewing, that a Standing Army Is inconsistent with A Free Government, and absolutely destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy by John Trenchard
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The New Revolutionaries
August 10, 1995
The Turner Diaries by Andrew" (William L. Pierce) "Macdonald
Warriors Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post-Vietnam America by James William Gibson
The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation by Dick J. Reavis
Guns, Crime, and Freedom by Wayne R. LaPierre, foreword by Tom Clancy
Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace by Leonard L. Lewin
The Politics of Righteousness: Idaho Christian Patriotism by James A. Aho
In the Shadow of War: The United States Since the 1930s by Michael S. Sherry
This Thing of Darkness: A Sociology of the Enemy by James A. Aho
Why Waco? Cults and the Battle for Religious Freedom in America by James D. Tabor, by Eugene V. Gallagher
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Hunt for the Last Judgment
April 20, 1995
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The Visionary
March 23, 1995
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Thomas’s Confirmation: The True Story
February 2, 1995
The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process
by Stephen L. Carter
Race-ing Justice, En-gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Construction of Social Reality
edited and with an introduction by Toni Morrison
Resurrection: The Confirmation of Clarence Thomas by John C. Danforth
Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas by Jane Mayer, by Jill Abramson
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The Tragic Pope?
December 22, 1994
Crossing the Threshold of Hope by His Holiness John Paul II, edited by Vittorio Messori, translated by Jenny McPhee, by Martha McPhee
Prayers and Devotions from Pope John Paul II introduction by edited and with an Bishop OSA van Lierde, Peter Canisius Johannes, translated by Firman O'Sullivan
Catechism of the Catholic Church
The Place Within: The Poetry of Pope John Paul II
translated by Jerzy Peterkiewicz
The Papacy by Bernhard Schimmelpfennig, translated by James Sievert
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Clinton’s Troubles
September 22, 1994
Leading With My Heart by Virginia Kelley
The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House by Bob Woodward
All’s Fair by Mary Matalin, by James Carville
Highwire: From the Backroads to the BeltwayThe Education of Bill Clinton by John Brummett
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The Real Thing
August 11, 1994
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin January-April 1994; Art Institute of Chicago, April-July 1994; Cincinnati Art Museum, July 28-October 9, 1994; Baltimore Museum of Art, October 26-December 31, 1994; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
I Tell My Heart: The Art of Horace Pippin catalog edited by Judith E. Stein
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series Birmingham Museum, July 10-September 4, 1994; St. Louis Art Museum, September 30-November 27, 1994; Museum of Modern Art, New York, January 12-April 11, 1995; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, April 25-June 25, 199 exhibition at the Phillips Collection, September 1993-January 1994;
Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series catalog edited by Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Harriet and the Promised Land by Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence: Thirty Years of Prints (1963-1993), A Catalogue Raisonné Washington catalog of the exhibition at Francine Seders Gallery, Seattle,, essay by Patricia Hills, edited by Peter Nesbett
A History of African-American Artists From 1792 to the Present
by Romare Bearden, by Harry Henderson
The Emergence of the African-American Artist: Robert S. Duncanson, 1821-1872 by Joseph D. Ketner
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Action Painting in Venice
July 14, 1994
Tintoretto: Tutte le opere Volumes 1 and 2: Le opere sacre e profane Volume 3: I ritratti by Rodolfo Pallucchini, by Paola Rossi
Vite dei Tintoretto by Carlo Ridolfi, edited by Antonio Manno
Tintoretto: La Scuola Grande di San Rocco by Giandomenico Romanelli
Le Siècle de Titien: L’âge d’or de la peinture à Venise, édition revue et corrigée 14, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Paris, March 9-June, by Michel Laclotte
Tintoretto: Sacre rappresentazioni nelle chiese di Venezia 31, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at San Bartolomeo, Venice, January 15-May
Jacopo Tintoretto: Ritratti March 25-July 10, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice,, by Paola Rossi
Jacopo Tintoretto e i suoi incisori 15-July 10, 1994, catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale, Venice, April
Capolavori della pittura veneta dal Castello di Praga 20-September 21, 1994 catalog of the exhibition at the Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno, March
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Sons and Daughters of Chicago
June 9, 1994
Plan of Chicago by Daniel H. Burnham, by Edward H. Bennett, edited by Charles Moore
Writing Chicago: Modernism, Ethnography, and the Novel by Carla Cappetti
Henry Hobson Richardson: J.J. Glessner House, Chicago
by Elaine Harrington
Frank Lloyd Wright 10, 1994 An exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York February 20May
Frank Lloyd Wright: Architect catalog of the exhibition edited by Terence Riley
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A Class Act
May 12, 1994
Rebellions, Perversities, and Main Events
by Murray Kempton
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The Saint of Mott Street
April 21, 1994
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Chicago Underground
October 21, 1993
Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
by William Cronon
Perfect Cities: Chicago’s Utopias of 1893 by James Gilbert
Constructing Chicago by Daniel Bluestone
Louis H. Sullivan: A System of Architectural Ornament Inc., 986 Woodland Avenue, Plainfield, NJ 07006, 908-757-4700; (fax) 908-756-4133. Discount available for booksellers.) foreword by John Zukowsky, by Susan Glover Godlewski, essay by Lauren S Weingarden
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Living Others’ Deaths
September 23, 1993
Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States by Helen Prejean C.S.J.
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The Aesthete
August 12, 1993
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello an exhibition at Monticello, Virginia,April 13December 31, 1993
The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello by Susan R. Stein
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The City-Planner Pope
June 10, 1993
Roma Sisto Quinto: arte, architetture e città fra rinascemento e barocco edited by Mario Bevilacqua et al.
Le arti nelle Marche al tempo di Sisto V edited by Paolo Dal Poggetto
I pittori di Sisto V by Alessandro Zuccari
Sisto V: Architetture per la città edited by Maria Piera Sette, edited by Simona Benedetti
La pianta di Roma al tempo di Sisto V (15851590) edited by Gianfranco Spagnesi et al.
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Hanging Out with Greeks
May 13, 1993
The Oldest Dead White European Males and Other Reflections on the Classics by Bernard Knox
New Perspectives in Early Greek Art England edited by Diana Buittron-Oliver
The Norton Book of Classical Literature edited by Bernard Knox
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Popes and Pagans
February 11, 1993
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture DC, January 6April 30, 1993 catalog of the exhibition at the Library of Congress, Washington,, edited by Anthony Grafton
From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance
by N.G. Wilson
Piero della Francesca
by Carlo Bertelli, translated by Edward Farrelly
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Athena’s Magic
December 17, 1992
The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC November 22, 1992February 7, 1993; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York March 11May 23, 1993 an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Greek Miracle: Classical Sculpture from the Dawn of Democracy, The Fifth Century BC catalog of the exhibition, edited by Diana Buitron-Oliver
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes 1992January 3, 1993 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago October 10,
The Ancient Americas: Art from Sacred Landscapes catalog of the exhibition, edited by Richard F. Townsend
Talismans and Trojan Horses: Guardian Statues in Ancient Greek Myth and Ritual by Christopher A. Faraone
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Undemocratic Vistas
November 19, 1992
Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy by George F. Will
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Father Knows Best
November 5, 1992
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A Doll’s House?
October 22, 1992
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The Born-Again Republicans
September 24, 1992
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The Hostage
August 13, 1992
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The Rescuer
June 25, 1992
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Homer Alive
April 23, 1992
Kings: An Account of Books 1 and 2 of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ by Christopher Logue
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The Buchanan Canon
April 9, 1992
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H.R. Clinton’s Case
March 5, 1992
‘Children Under the Law’ (1974) reprinted as the lead article in The Rights of Children, edited by Rochelle Beck, by Heather Bastow Weiss
‘Children’s Policies: Abandonment and Neglect’
‘Children’s Rights: A Legal Perspective’ in Children's Rights: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Patricia A. Vardin, by Ilene N. Brody
‘Teacher Education: Of the People, By the People, and For the People’ on Teacher Education Policies, Practices, and Research in Beyond the Looking Glass: Papers From a National Symposium
‘The Healthy Development of Our Youth’ Foundations, 1988 Keynote Address to the Atlanta Convention of Southeastern Council of
‘A Bridge Over the Mississippi’ Memphis State University, 1990 Kansas Work Force, 1991 Keynote Address to the Second Annual Urban Education Symposium at. Keynote Address to the Conference on Adult Basic Skills and the
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The Golden ‘Blade’
February 13, 1992
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Why Cuomo Said No
January 30, 1992
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The Presbyterian Nietzsche
January 16, 1992
Woodrow Wilson by August Heckscher
Woodrow Wilson: A Life for World Peace by Jan Willem Schulte Nordholt, translated by Herbert H. Rowen
Young Nietzsche: Becoming A Genius by Carl Pletsch
America in the Great War: The Rise of the War Welfare State by Ronald Schaffer
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Man of the Year
November 21, 1991
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration 1991January, 12, 1992 an exhibition at the National Gallery, Washington, DC, October 12,
Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration catalog of the exhibition, edited by Jay A. Levensen
The Worlds of Christopher Columbus by William D. Phillips Jr., by Carla Rahn Phillips
Renaissance Characters edited by Eugenio Garin, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane
In Search of Columbus: The Sources for the First Voyage by David Henige
The ‘Libro de las profecias’ of Christopher Columbus by Delno C. West, by August Kling
Columbus by Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell
1492 by Jacques Attali
Out of Italy: 14501650
by Fernand Braudel, translated by Sián Reynolds
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World by Stephen Greenblatt
Columbus: The Great Adventure: His Life, His Times, and His Voyages by Paolo Emilio Taviani, translated by Luciano F. Farina, by Marc A. Beckwith
Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari
by Paul Barolsky
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Keeper of the Seal
July 18, 1991
Counsel to the President: A Memoir
by Clark Clifford, with Richard Holbrooke
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Dickens’s Girls
June 13, 1991
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The Man Who Wasn’t There
June 13, 1991
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The Angels and Devils of Dickens
May 16, 1991
Dickens
by Peter Ackroyd
The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens by Claire Tomalin
Mark Twain’s Aquarium: The Samuel Clemens ‘Angelfish’ Correspondence, 19051910 edited by John Cooley
Victorian Subjects by J. Hillis Miller
Dickens and the 1830s by Kathryn Chittick
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A Tale of Three Cities
March 28, 1991
The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America by Nicholas Lemann
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The Long Voyage Home
January 17, 1991
Middle Passage by Charles Johnson
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Mr. Magoo Remembers
December 20, 1990
An American Life by Ronald Reagan
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Goodbye, Columbus
November 22, 1990
The Harp and the Shadow by Alejo Carpentier, translated by Thomas Christensen, by Carol Christensen
The Dogs of Paradise by Abel Posse, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy by Kirkpatrick Sale
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Long-Distance Runner
October 25, 1990
Rabbit at Rest by John Updike
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The Politics of Grievance
July 19, 1990
The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath
by Kevin Phillips
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Mario Cuomo’s Trouble with Abortion
June 28, 1990
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Henry Adams as Holy Fool
June 14, 1990
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Monstre Désacré
April 26, 1990
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
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Shylock Without Usury
January 18, 1990
Shylock Reconsidered: Jews, Moneylending, and Medieval Society by Joseph Shatzmiller
God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England by Norman Jones
The Merchant of Venice a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Hall
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The Phallic Pulpit
December 21, 1989
Fall From Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right
by Michael d'Antonio
Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory: A Journey into the Evangelical Subculture of America by Randall Balmer
Forgiven: The Rise and Fall of Jim Bakker and the PTL Ministry by Charles E. Shepard
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The Power of Impotence
November 23, 1989
A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt by Geoffrey C. Ward
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Love in the Lower Depths
October 26, 1989
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Mr. Memory
October 12, 1989
The Bellarosa Connection by Saul Bellow
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An Exchange on Mark Twain
September 28, 1989
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Evangels of Abortion
June 15, 1989
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The Dark Legacy of the Enlightenment
March 30, 1989
The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 1, Slaves and Liberators by Hugh Honour
The Image of the Black in Western Art Volume IV: From the American Revolution to World War I, Part 2, Black Models and White Myths by Hugh Honour
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Juggler’s Code
March 2, 1989
Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow
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Dorrit Without Politics
February 2, 1989
Little Dorrit a film directed by Christine Edzard, based on the novel by Charles Dickens
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Civil Rights & the Kennedys
February 2, 1989
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Coriolanus Without Rome
January 19, 1989
Coriolanus by William Shakespeare, directed by Steven Berkoff
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The Election and the Future: A Symposium
December 22, 1988
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Aeromance
November 24, 1988
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The Kennedys in the King Years
November 10, 1988
Remembering America: A Voice from the Sixties by Richard N. Goodwin
Robert Kennedy In His Own Words: The Unpublished Recollections of the Kennedy Years
edited by Edwin O. Guthman, edited by Jeffrey Shulman
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 19541963
by Taylor Branch
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Jesus in the Mean Streets
October 13, 1988
The Last Temptation of Christ a film directed by Martin Scorsese, screenplay by Paul Schrader
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‘New Votuhs’
August 18, 1988
The Best Congress Money Can Buy by Philip M. Stern
Why Americans Don’t Vote by Frances Fox Piven, by Richard A. Cloward
Whose Votes Count?: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights by Abigail M. Thernstrom
Character: America’s Search for Leadership by Gail Sheehy
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Big Buddy
June 16, 1988
For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington by Donald T. Regan
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More Than a Game
April 28, 1988
The Power Game: How Washington Really Works by Hedrick Smith
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Aerie Visions
March 17, 1988
The Rise of American Air Power: The Creation of Armageddon by Michael S. Sherry
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Blood Sport
February 18, 1988
The Manly Art by Elliott J. Gorn
John L. Sullivan and His America
by Michael T. Isenberg
Beyond the Ring: The Role of Boxing in American Society by Jeffrey T. Sammons
On Boxing by Joyce Carol Oates
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Jefferson’s Jesus
November 24, 1983
Jefferson’s Extracts from the Gospels: “The Philosophy of Jesus” and “The Life and Morals of Jesus” edited by Dickinson W. Adams
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Embers of Guilt
February 19, 1981
The Sea and Poison (Umi to Dokuyaku, 1958) translated by Michael Galagher
Wonderful Fool (Obaka San, 1959) translated by Francis Mathy
Volcano (Kazan, 1959) translated by Richard A. Schuchert
Silence (Chinmoku, 1966) translated by William Johnston
The Golden Country (Ogon no Kuni, 1966) translated by Francis Mathy
A Life of Jesus (Iesu no Shogai, 1973) translated by Richard Schuchert
When I Whistle (Kuchibue o fuku toki, 1974) translated by Van C. Gessel
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How Carter Hangs On
February 8, 1979
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Hyperopia
October 26, 1978
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Typhoon on the Bay
August 17, 1978
Chesapeake by James A. Michener
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A Guy Like I
July 20, 1978
Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator by Bobby Baker, by Larry L. King
The Senate Nobody Knows
by Bernard Asbell
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Panama: A New Peril
June 1, 1978
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An Exchange on Adam Smith
May 18, 1978
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Schorr’s Case
April 20, 1978
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The Honor of Alger Hiss
April 20, 1978
Perjury: The Hiss-Chambers Case by Allen Weinstein
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Heroic Darkness
April 6, 1978
The Ends of Power by H.R. Haldeman, by Joseph DiMona
With Nixon by Raymond Price
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Benevolent Adam Smith
February 9, 1978
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, I. The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith, edited by D.D. Raphael, by A.L. Macfie.
The Glasgow Edition of the Works and Correspondence of Adam Smith, II. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, edited by R.H. Campbell, edited by A.S. Skinner, textual editor W.B. Todd
Essays on Adam Smith edited by A.S. Skinner, edited by Thomas Wilson
The Market and the State: Essays in Honour of Adam Smith
edited by Thomas Wilson, edited by Andrew S. Skinner
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A Hard Case
November 24, 1977
Clearing the Air by Daniel Schorr
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The Trials of Bert and Jimmy
September 29, 1977
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‘Running for President’
June 9, 1977
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Carter and the End of Liberalism
May 12, 1977
America in Our Time
by Godfrey Hodgson
The Collapse of Liberal Empire: Science and Revolution in the Twentieth Century by Paul N. Goldstene
Public Constraint and American Policy in Vietnam by Bruce Andrews
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Reading the Carter Riddle
April 28, 1977
The Search for Jimmy Carter by Tom Collins
Running for President 1976: The Carter Campaign by Martin Schram
How Jimmy Won: The Victory Campaign from Plains to the White House by Kandy Stroud
Convention by Richard Reeves
We Almost Made It by Malcolm D. MacDougall
The Natural Superiority of Southern Politicians: A Revisionist History by David Leon Chandler
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Reading the Goncourts
March 31, 1977
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Martyrdom at the Met
March 3, 1977
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Machines for Sentiment
February 17, 1977
Jean-Baptiste Greuze: 1725-1805 1976-January 23, 1977 (Also at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, March 5-May 1, 1977, and at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, June 4-July 31, 1977) Selection and catalogue by Edgar Munhall. For exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, December 1,
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Imprisoned in the Sixties
January 20, 1977
Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine by Tom Wolfe
Winners and Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses and Ruins from a Long War by Gloria Emerson
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Carter on His Own
November 25, 1976
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The Founders’ Virtues
November 11, 1976
The Challenge of the American Revolution
by Edmund S. Morgan
The Meaning of Independence: Adams, Washington and Jefferson
by Edmund S. Morgan
Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue
by Merrill D. Peterson
The Character of John Adams by Peter Shaw
The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving, edited by Jess Stein
George Washington: A Biography
by Washington Irving, edited by Charles Neider
Jefferson: A Revealing Biography by Page Smith
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Trumbull’s Klutzy Triumph
October 14, 1976
Trumbull: The Declaration of Independence by Irma B. Jaffe
John Trumbull: Patriot-Artist of the American Revolution by Irma B. Jaffe
Paul Revere’s Boston: 1735-1818 Graphic Society by Walter M. Whitehill
The Eye of Thomas Jefferson
edited by William Howard Adams
Maryland Heritage edited by John B. Boles
French Painting 1774-1830: The Age of Revolution
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Dead Heat Dumb-Out
September 16, 1976
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The Carter Question I: Love and Profit
August 5, 1976
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Singing ‘Mammy’ to Doris
June 24, 1976
Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns
LBJ: An Irreverent Chronicle by Booth Mooney
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At the Waldorf
June 24, 1976
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Anti-Papa Politics
June 10, 1976
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Cato’s Gang
March 4, 1976
The Hard Years: A Look at Contemporary America and American Institutions by Eugene J. McCarthy
If Men Were Angels: A View from the Senate by James L. Buckley
Charles Percy: A Political Perspective by Robert E. Hartley
Scoop: The Life and Politics of Henry M. Jackson by Peter J. Ognibene
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The CIA from Beginning to End
January 22, 1976
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Someone to Watch Over You
November 13, 1975
The Abuses of the Intelligence Agencies Washington, DC 20002) by The Center for National Security Studies, edited by Jerry J. Berman, by Morton H. Halperin
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The Sporting Life
October 30, 1975
Muhammad Ali: A Portrait in Words and Photographs by Wilfrid Sheed
SportsWorld by Robert Lipsyte
The Fight by Norman Mailer
The Greatest: My Own Story by Muhammad Ali, by Richard Durham
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He’s Not So Dumb
October 16, 1975
Portrait of a President by Hugh Sidey, photographs by Fred Ward
The President by John Hersey
Gerald Ford and the Future of the Presidency by Jerald F. terHorst
A Ford, Not a Lincoln by Richard Reeves
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Yale Enlightened
September 18, 1975
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The Augustinian Ruskin
August 7, 1975
The Failing Distance: The Autobiographical Impulse in John Ruskin
by Jay Fellows
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A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
June 12, 1975
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Good Henry & Bad Henry
June 12, 1975
The Kissinger Experience: American Policy in the Middle East by Gil Carl AlRoy
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Do We Need Prisons? An Exchange
May 29, 1975
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Backstairs at Court
May 15, 1975
Conversations with Kennedy by Benjamin C. Bradlee
Before the Fall: An Inside View of the Pre-Watergate White House by William Safire
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Gorgeous Sills
May 1, 1975
The Siege of Corinth by Gioacchino Rossini, libretto by Luigi Balocchi, by Alexander Soumet, conducted by Thomas Schippers. at the Metropolitan Opera
Mawrdew Czgowchwz by James McCourt
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The Human Sewer
April 3, 1975
A Time to Die by Tom Wicker
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The Man the Democrats Need
January 23, 1975
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The Big Week in Washington
August 8, 1974
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Executive Privilege: Jefferson & Burr & Nixon & Ehrlichman
July 18, 1974
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The Kingdom of Heaven
June 13, 1974
All the President’s Men by Carl Bernstein, by Bob Woodward
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The Strange Case of Jefferson’s Subpoena
May 2, 1974
Jefferson the President: Second Term, 1805-1809 (Volume Five of “Jefferson and His Time”) by Dumas Malone
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Uncle Thomas’s Cabin
April 18, 1974
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History by Fawn M. Brodie
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The Devil and Lolita
February 21, 1974
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The Uses of John Foster Dulles
February 7, 1974
The Devil and John Foster Dulles by Townsend Hoopes
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Death of a Salesman
October 4, 1973
The Making of the President1972 by Theodore White
Us and Them: How the Press Covered the 1972 Election by James M. Perry
Campaign ‘72: The Managers Speak edited by Ernest R. May, edited by Janet Fraser
The Boys on the Bus by Timothy Crouse
Right From the Start by Gary Hart
The Long Shot: George McGovern Runs for President by Gordon L. Weil
Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail ‘72
by Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, with illustrations by Ralph Steadman
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The Mormon Constitution
May 24, 2012
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Why Is This Man Laughing?
May 18, 2012
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The Myth About Marriage
May 9, 2012
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Bullying the Nuns
April 24, 2012
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Santorum's Arrested Development
February 29, 2012
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Contraception's Con Men
February 15, 2012
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Edmund Burke Against Grover Norquist
July 14, 2011
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The President’s Crack Team
May 6, 2011
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The Art Destroyers
March 29, 2011
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Blood Lust and the Super Bowl
February 4, 2011
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Sarge Shriver (1915–2011)
January 19, 2011
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Blind Libel
January 14, 2011
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Obama's Finest Hour
January 13, 2011
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Chicago's Magnificent Macbeth
October 18, 2010
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Stealing Newman
September 16, 2010
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Obama's Legacy: Afghanistan
July 27, 2010
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McChrystal Does Not Matter
June 22, 2010
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The Vatican's Ask and Tell Problem
June 7, 2010
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Lenten Thoughts
March 15, 2010
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After Massachusetts: His Hopes Did Him In
January 20, 2010
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On David Levine (1926–2009)
January 8, 2010
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Afghanistan: The Betrayal
December 2, 2009
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One-Term President?
November 3, 2009
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The New American Hysteria
October 6, 2009
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'Timon of Athens'
April 24, 2012 – June 10, 2012,
Starring the brilliant Ian McDiarmid as Timon