The war in Vietnam was a seminal event in post-1945 world affairs. The conflict had a profound and lasting impact on the politics and…
In one of the most detailed and powerfully argued books published on American intervention in Vietnam, Fredrik Logevall examines the last…
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“Rosa Guy’s novel follows Wade Williams, a brilliant young black man who wakes up in a mental hospital and is told he has assaulted his…
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Written in alternating chapters, a mother and daughter describe the accident that nearly killed the daughter and left her paralyzed, and…
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“Jadine Childs is a Black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a…
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“Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their…