Ben Dolnick
Vintage
ISBN 978-0307390875
274 pages
$16.95
Reviewed by Jennifer Gilmore
"You Know Who You Are," Washington-area native Ben Dolnick's secondcoming-of-age novel, is the story of Jacob Vine. We see him first at age 10, searching for his lost cousin and trying to hold on to the love of his more accomplished older brother. By the end, he's ...
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Francis Fukuyama
Farrar Straus Giroux
ISBN 978-0374227340
585 pages
$35
Reviewed by Gerard DeGroot
The history profession is today dominated by small minds studying small topics. Specialists trade in abstractions, taking refuge in tiny foxholes of arcane knowledge. It was not always this way. In the 19th century, men like Leopold von Ranke, George Macaulay...
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