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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

The Indispensable President

REVIEW: 'American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington' by H.W. Brands

A Tale of Two City-States

REVIEW: 'Athens and Sparta: The Rivalry That Shaped Ancient Greece' by Adrian Goldsworthy

A Return to Proper History

REVIEW: 'The Mighty Continent: A Candid History of Modern Europe' by Walter A. McDougall

American Odyssey

REVIEW: ‘This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis & Clark’ by Craig Fehrman

A Revolution—If You Can Keep It

REVIEW: ‘Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution’ by Jonathan Turley

Europe's Painful Quest for Unity

REVIEW: 'Europe: A New History' by Roderick Beaton

A Politician Who Belongs to the Ages

REVIEW: 'Boss Lincoln: The Partisan Life of Abraham Lincoln' by Matthew Pinsker

Some Soviets Were Less Equal Than Others

REVIEW: 'The Penny is Gone: Meditations of a Soviet Jew' by Emil Bezverkhny

This Emperor Had Clothes

REVIEW: ‘Meditations’ by Marcus Aurelius, translated by Aaron Poochigian