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Saturday, May 2, 2009

Sunday book reviews

There is history this weekend in the New York Times Book Review section.

THE REBELLION OF RONALD REAGAN: A History of the End of the Cold War by James Mann and THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America by William Kleinknecht are reviewed by Christopher Caldwell.

THE SOUND OF FREEDOM: Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America by Raymond Arsenault is reviewed by Jennifer Baszile.

TO KEEP THE BRITISH ISLES AFLOAT: FDR’s Men in Churchill’s London, 1941 by Thomas Parrish is reviewed by Jennet Conant.
Posted by Mary L. Dudziak at 9:50 PM
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