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		<title>Northwest to the Sea</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the late eighteenth century, the fur trade in North America entailed a huge and costly detour. Beaver pelts, harvested in Canada and the United States and destined for China, had first to be shipped east to London. From there they traveled southwest, around Cape Horn, and then west halfway around the world to the ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Sound of the Future</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Beethoven was the first great Romantic composer, and if you listen closely you can hear the moment he launched a new era in music. It occurs about a minute into the third movement of his Symphony No. 3, <em>Eroica</em>. After ninety-two bars of indeterminate pianissimo throat clearing, the orchestra suddenly scales upward and erupts in ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Da Vinci&#8217;s Diaries</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leonardo da Vinci — bearded sage of the Renaissance, anatomist, engineer, inventor, and creator of two of the most famous paintings in history (<em>Mona Lisa</em> and <em>The Last Supper</em>) — was first and foremost a mensch. He was, according to an acquaintance, handsome and kind, a gay vegetarian, “friendly, precise, and generous, with a radiant, ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where the Water Goes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 May 2017 17:39:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Some miles south of the Mexican city of Los Algodones, near the Baja Peninsula, the Colorado River ends. It used to flow to the sea, emptying into the Gulf of California. As recently as midcentury, its delta was a wetland ecosystem, with lagoons, fish, and jaguars. Now the drainage basin is an arid wasteland. Motorists ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Six Encounters with Lincoln</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 May 2017 15:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[How do we gauge the success of a presidency? The media has recently found itself asking this question. There are standard measures like passing durable legislation and responding well to crisis. Equally important, at least for the current president, are keeping campaign pledges and maintaining popularity through statements and speeches. President Obama’s goal seemed to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Travels with Henry James</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2016 01:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What is the difference between the Great Lakes and the ocean? A scientist will tell you that the ocean contains saltwater, of course, and a vast ecosystem; the moon’s gravity also exerts a greater pull on it, establishing the tides. Asked the same question, a gifted novelist — indeed, a master — will tell you less, ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Pigeon Tunnel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2016 23:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[One of John le Carré’s boyhood memories is clutching his mother’s hand while waving to his father, who stood high up behind a prison wall. Ronnie Cornwell was a charming rogue, a confidence man who ran frauds and visited jails all over the world. He once sent the teenage le Carré to St. Moritz to ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Ordeal of the Presidency</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2016 22:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[During the early 2000s, a friend and I liked to discuss George W. Bush’s motives. Neither of us were fans of his presidency, but my friend would occasionally defend President Bush — or perhaps try to understand him — by contending that he did not seem like an evil man out to destroy the country. ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The End of the Cold War</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Who deserves credit: Reagan or Gorbachev? It is a question that drives many a book about the downfall of the Soviet Union. Yet to Robert Service, the eminent British historian of Soviet Russia, the question overlooks the complex and dynamic mechanics of history. In <em>The End of the Cold War: 1985–1991</em>, Service masterfully weaves a ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Give Us the Ballot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2015 21:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The dogs. The lunch counter. The “whites-only” sign. These enduring images of the civil rights movement are visceral symbols of separation and resistance. Yet they obscure a less tangible but more profound civil right: the right to vote. President Lyndon Johnson viewed the franchise as the right on which all other rights depend: “the meat ...]]></description>
		
		
		
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