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Bookshelf: In 2 Books, It’s All About the Hamiltons [22 Oct 2015|09:36pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/in-2-books-its-all-about-the-hamiltons.html

John Sedgwick writes about the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and Shane White rescues Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s first black millionaire, from oblivion.
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Review: David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’ Plunges Into a Battle of Immortals [22 Oct 2015|08:19pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/books/review-david-mitchells-slade-house-plunges-into-a-battle-of-immortals.html

This book is a sequel of sorts to “The Bone Clocks,” Mr. Mitchell’s most recent novel, although it’s closer to being a sly footnote.
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Help Desk: Risky Business [22 Oct 2015|07:25pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/risky-business.html

In the first installment of the Book Review’s new self-help column, a look at three books that offer advice on how to manage, topple and harness risk.
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Stacy Schiff: By the Book [22 Oct 2015|12:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/stacy-schiff-by-the-book.html

The author, most recently, of “The Witches” sat behind Hilary Mantel at a performance of “Wolf Hall”: “The titles of her backlist tumbled out half intelligibly, one on top of the other. . . . She seemed to take me for a lunatic.”
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‘The Secret Chord,’ by Geraldine Brooks [22 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/the-secret-chord-by-geraldine-brooks.html

Geraldine Brooks’s novel follows this flawed, complicated king.
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‘I’ll Never Write My Memoirs,’ Grace Jones’s Memoirs [22 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/ill-never-write-my-memoirs-grace-joness-memoirs.html

Grace Jones, avatar of the outré, holds forth on her life, her career and today’s female pop artists.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Becoming Nicole,’ a Young Boy’s Journey Into Girlhood [21 Oct 2015|07:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/books/review-becoming-nicole-a-young-boys-journey-into-girlhood.html

Amy Ellis Nutt’s account of how the Maines family accommodated and supported Wyatt as he transformed into Nicole.
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‘Dissent and the Supreme Court,’ by Melvin I. Urofsky [21 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/dissent-and-the-supreme-court-by-melvin-i-urofsky.html

How dissent has shaped court deliberations and the course of constitutional history.
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Books of The Times: Review: Orhan Pamuk’s ‘A Strangeness in My Mind’ [20 Oct 2015|10:00pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/21/books/review-orhan-pamuks-a-strangeness-in-my-mind.html

The first novel from this Nobel Prize winner since “The Museum of Innocence” (2009) is a melancholic look at life in Istanbul over the past half-century.
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‘Doomed to Succeed,’ by Dennis Ross [20 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/doomed-to-succeed-by-dennis-ross.html

A career policy maker takes a historical look at Middle Eastern geopolitics.
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‘The Gap of Time,’ by Jeanette Winterson [20 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/the-gap-of-time-by-jeanette-winterson.html

A cover version of “The Winter’s Tale,” first in a series of Shakespeare’s works reimagined, unleashes the play’s rawness.
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From the Ear to the Page, the ‘Night Vale’ Podcast Becomes a Novel [19 Oct 2015|10:37pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/books/from-the-ear-to-the-page-the-night-vale-podcast-becomes-a-novel.html

A sinister podcast that rocketed to success is headed for the page.
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Books of The Times: Review: ‘Career of Evil,’ J.K. Rowling’s Grisly Crime Novel [19 Oct 2015|09:57pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/20/books/review-career-of-evil-jk-rowlings-grisly-crime-novel.html

Her latest novel, written under the pen name Robert Galbraith, centers on a serial killer who likes to cut off body parts as trophies.
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ArtsBeat: Edith Wharton’s Silver Baby Rattle Up for Sale [19 Oct 2015|06:40pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/edith-whartons-silver-baby-rattle-up-for-sale/

The rattle, with a coral teething ring, carries a price of $16,500, including commission.
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‘The Nixon Tapes: 1973,’ Edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter [19 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/the-nixon-tapes-1973-edited-by-douglas-brinkley-and-luke-a-nichter.html

The latest volume of tapes from Richard Nixon’s White House deals principally with Watergate.
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‘America’s Bank,’ by Roger Lowenstein [19 Oct 2015|09:30am]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/americas-bank-by-roger-lowenstein.html

The core of this book is the story of the politics, disagreements, decisions and crises that culminated in the Federal Reserve Act.
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Books of The Times: Review: In ‘Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal,’ Jay Parini Catalogs More Than [18 Oct 2015|09:28pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/19/books/review-in-empire-of-self-a-life-of-gore-vidal-jay-parini-catalogs-more-than-illuminates.html

Vidal gets what he wished for: To be taken seriously as a novelist. Unfortunately, this means that page after page is spent synopsizing his work.
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ArtsBeat: David Lynch to Tell His Own Story in Book, but With a Twist [17 Oct 2015|05:53pm]

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http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/david-lynch-to-tell-his-own-story-in-book-but-with-a-twist/

The movie and television director says his new hybrid memoir-biography, “Life & Work,” will be a way to “get all the right information in one place.”
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Bookshelf: In 2 Books, It’s All About the Hamiltons [17 Oct 2015|02:27pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/in-2-books-its-all-about-the-hamiltons.html

John Sedgwick writes about the 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and Shane White rescues Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s first black millionaire, from oblivion.
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Bookshelf: In 2 Books, It’s All About the Hamiltons [16 Oct 2015|10:40pm]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/18/nyregion/in-2-books-its-all-about-the-hamiltons.html

John Sedgwick writes about the 1904 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, and Shane White rescues Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street’s first black millionaire, from oblivion.
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