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““It was truly a transitional moment: There he was, at the cusp of the twentieth century, using the telephone to send a telegram.””

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“look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far…

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That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone's got warts, and everyone's got a surprise side.

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“Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that…

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. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.

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“At present," he said, "I am responsible for conveying my associates to a place called Chicago. I understand it is somewhere in the hinterland.”

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I knew from an online search that the Wisconsin State Historical Society, on the vast University of Wisconsin campus, held the papers of Sigrid…

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Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he…

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I envy other writers who claim to have a backlog of books they'd like to write.

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Trying to find ideas is the hardest part of my job. You'd think it would be the most fun. Just sitting around reading whatever…

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“Her blind endorsement of Hitler’s regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,”

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