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Co-published with the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, Brown University. This is the first volume of three in what... In the midst of the crises of the Second World War, Roosevelt and Stalin secretly exchanged three hundred letters, published together now...
The Renaissance recovery of ancient biographical writers such as Plutarch, Suetonius, and Jerome led to a wave of imitations by Renaissance... Suri offers a thought-provoking, interpretive study of one of the most influential and controversial political figures of the 20th century....
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