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Reviewing Books that Build Culture

The Lakota: A Human Story
Santi Ruiz welcomes Lakota America by Pekka Hämäläinen.

The Soul of a Free Man
Kyle Sammin reviews Black Spartacus: The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture by Sudhir Hazareesingh.

The Last Plantagenet
Garrett Robinson reviews Nicola Tallis’s Uncrowned Queen on Margaret Beaufort.

Holding a Wolf by the Ears
Jason Ross reviews Jeff Broadwater’s Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution.

A Refreshed and Refreshing Federalist
Michael Federici welcomes Reflection and Choice, the new Federalist collection from Gregg and Coleman.

Naive Virtue?
Casey Chalk reviews Thomas Ricks’s First Principles.

A Life for the Longfellow Renaissance
William F. Meehan III welcomes Nicholas Basbanes’s new Longfellow biography.

More than an Education
Clayton Trutor reviews David Brown’s new biography of Henry Adams.

Hemingway Finds His Voice
Frank Freeman reviews the new Library of America edition of the early Hemingway.
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