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Alida Becker was an editor at the Book Review for 30 years. She was the first winner of the National Book Critics Circle ...

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A new documentary examines the growing movement to bring Bible-based education back to public school students.

These three history books are worth reading this summer, from a Northern Kentucky WWII soldier's letters to a book on William Howard Taft.