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This week’s reviews: Inside the Nixons’ marriage, the CIA’s secret Arabists, and how greed killed beautiful birds

January 10, 2014

Our latest book reviews:

America’s Great Game: the CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East by Hugh Wilford, reviewed by Michael Petrou Shovel Ready by Adam Sternbergh, reviewed by Martin PatriquinPat and Dick: The Nixons, An Intimate Portrait of A Marriage by Will Swift, reviewed by Julia McKinnell My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread and the Search for Peace of Mind by Scott Stossel, reviewed by Dafna Izenberg A Feathered River Across the Sky: the Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction by Joel Greenberg, reviewed by Brian BethuneVisit the Maclean’s Bookmarked blog for news and reviews on all things literary.

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