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    The First Presidential Impeachment

    Brenda Wineapple’s “The Impeachers” is a revealing history of the trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.

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      The True-Crime Story That Harper Lee Tried and Failed to Write

      In “Furious Hours,” Casey Cep investigates the Alabama murder case that was to have been the focus of Lee’s second book — as well as the famously reclusive writer herself, plumbing the mystery of her 50-year silence.

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      Your sneak preview of books coming out in 2019 from around the world.

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    Harper Lee’s Unwritten True-Crime Book

    Casey Cep discusses “Furious Hours,” and Eliza Griswold talks about “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America.”

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    A Wild West Story About the Early Internet and Sex.com

    In “The Players Ball,” David Kushner recounts the fight over a valuable domain name in the days before the internet took its current form.

    By Noam Cohen

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    A History of Baseball in 10 Pitches

    With “K,” our reviewer says, Tyler Kepner of The New York Times has written a “delightfully nerdy” book.

    By Ada Calhoun

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    New French Fiction: With an Emphasis on Food, Film and Frolics

    Savor English translations of Maylis de Kerangal’s “The Cook,” Olivier Bourdeaut’s “Waiting for Bojangles” and Yannick Haenel’s “Hold Fast Your Crown.”

    By Nancy Kline

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    New & Noteworthy

    A selection of recent books of interest; plus, a peek at what our colleagues around the newsroom are reading.

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    This Debut Is a Jail Novel, but Funny

    The narrator of Ryan Chapman’s “Riots I Have Known” is both a convicted murderer and a literary editor.

    By Tadzio Koelb

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    Spend Some Time With the Winklevii

    Ben Mezrich’s “Bitcoin Billionaires” focuses on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, who used their Facebook windfall to buy up a lot of the cryptocurrency.

    By David Enrich

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    A Chinese Millennial Looks Back on Her Life

    In her memoir, “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China,” Karoline Kan personalizes the great changes occurring in her country.

    By Jeffrey Wasserstrom

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    The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out Immigrants

    In “The Guarded Gate” Daniel Okrent explores the 1920s nativist and eugenicist movements that led to the 1924 law practically shutting down immigration to America.

    By Linda Gordon

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    The Life and Crimes of America’s Original ‘Welfare Queen’

    In his new book, “The Queen,” Josh Levin reveals that Linda Taylor was a scammer of epic proportions, a kidnapper and possibly even a murderer.

    By Sam Dolnick

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    Exploring the Soul of the South

    In “Spying on the South,” Tony Horwitz recreates a trip taken by Frederick Law Olmsted in the early 1850s.

    By John M. Barry

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