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Russell Baker is a former columnist and correspondent for The New York Times and The Baltimore Sun. His books include The Good Times, Growing Up, and Looking Back. (November 2016)
The Heights of Charm
“Though all FDR’s medical advice indicated the job might kill him, he had grown into it. It was what he did and who he was. His love for it was so obvious that millions would have cried out in disbelief if told that he was quitting.”
His Final Battle: The Last Months of Franklin Roosevelt
by Joseph Lelyveld
September 29, 2016 issue
A Very Wretched Relationship
Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage
by Jeffrey Frank
April 4, 2013 issue
Visitors
Jim Sterba’s ‘Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds’
Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds
by Jim Sterba
February 21, 2013 issue
Anarchists & Capitalists
Emma Goldman: Revolution as a Way of Life
by Vivian Gornick
The President and the Assassin: McKinley, Terror, and Empire at the Dawn of the American Century
by Scott Miller
October 13, 2011 issue
The Charms of Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin and Eleanor: An Extraordinary Marriage
by Hazel Rowley
Eleanor Roosevelt: Transformative First Lady
by Maurine H. Beasley
June 9, 2011 issue
Decline But Not Fall
Morning Miracle: Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life
by Dave Kindred
September 30, 2010 issue
A Bad Morning at The New York Times
My Times in Black and White: Race and Power at the New York Times
by Gerald M. Boyd, with an afterword by Robin D. Stone
April 29, 2010 issue
A Heroic Historian on Heroes
American Heroes: Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America
by Edmund S. Morgan
June 11, 2009 issue
A Revolutionary President
FDR: The First Hundred Days
by Anthony J. Badger
The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope
by Jonathan Alter
Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America
by Adam Cohen
Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
by H.W. Brands
February 12, 2009 issue
How They Blew Up the L.A. Times
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century
by Howard Blum
November 20, 2008 issue
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