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The Untold Cost of the Cambridge Five

REVIEW: ‘Stalin’s Apostles: The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire’ by Antonia Senior

Courting No Favor

REVIEW: ‘Last Branch Standing: A Potentially Surprising, Occasionally Witty Journey Inside Today’s Supreme Court’ by Sarah Isgur

Selling Our Birthright

REVIEW: 'The Myth of Birthright Citizenship: What the Fourteenth Amendment Really Says' by Richard Epstein

Small Island, Big Crime

REVIEW: ‘Ironwood: A Catalina Novel’ by Michael Connelly

Founders With Feet of Clay

REVIEW: ‘A Perfect Coincidence: The Extraordinary Friendship and Astonishing Deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson’ by Jim Rasenberger

Donald Trump’s American Hustle

REVIEW: 'Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump' by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

A Royal Pain

REVIEW: ‘Betrayal: Power, Deceit and the Fight for the Future of the Royal Family’ by Tom Bower

America’s Vision Statement

REVIEW: ‘Founder’s Fire: From 1776 to the Age of Trump’

'In the End I Was Right': How a Harvard Historian Helped Reagan Topple Soviet Communism

REVIEW: 'The Man Who Knew Russia: Richard Pipes, Humanist and Cold Warrior' by Jonathan Daly

A Judge's Verdict on Israel

REVIEW: 'Israel on Trial: Examining the History, the Evidence, and the Law' by Roy K. Altman