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    Music Was It: Young Leonard Bernstein
    Susan Goldman Rubin
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    Anne Frank: Her Life in Words and Pic­tures from the Archives of the Anne Frank House
    Menno Metselaar and Ruud van der Rol
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    George Gersh­win: An Inti­mate Portrait
    Walter Rimler
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    The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich
    Daniel Ammann
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    Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles
    Panthea Reid
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    The Enig­ma of Isaac Babel: Biog­ra­phy, His­to­ry, Context
    Gregory Freidin
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    Koestler: The Lit­er­ary and Polit­i­cal Odyssey of a Twen­ti­eth-Cen­tu­ry Skeptic
    Michael Scammell
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    The Fall of a Spar­row: The Life and Times of Abba Kovner
    Dina Porat
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    Pulitzer: A Life in Pol­i­tics, Print, and Power
    James McGrath Morris
    Cover of Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness
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    Stranger from Abroad: Han­nah Arendt, Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger, Friend­ship and Forgiveness
    Daniel Maier-Katkin
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    God­dess of the Mar­ket: Ayn Rand and the Amer­i­can Right
    Jennifer Burns
    Cover of From Hester Street to Hollywood: The Life and Work of Anzia Yezierska
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    From Hes­ter Street to Hol­ly­wood: The Life and Work of Anzia Yezierska
    Bettina Berch
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    Leonard Bern­stein at Work: His Final Years, 1984 – 1990
    Steve J. Sherman
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    Anne Frank: The Book, The Life, The Afterlife
    Francine Prose
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    Ger­son­ides: Judaism with­in the Lim­its of Reason
    Seymour Feldman
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    Leonard Bern­stein: The Polit­i­cal Life of an Amer­i­can Musician
    Barry Seldes
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