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An erudite literary critic with an ear for language, he also wrote a raft of nonfiction books. By John Cotter In “Embers of the Hands,” the historian Eleanor Barraclough looks beyond the ...

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It’s a sequel of sorts to her 1939 book “Moses, Man of the Mountain” and focuses on the Judean king Herod the Great. In the New Testament, he’s portrayed as a slaughterer of innocents ...

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It was an exce­ll­ent year for readable history books. I admired the sweep of Manu Pillai’s Gods, Guns and Missionaries (Penguin). Looking at its voluminous footnotes gives a sense of how a popular ...

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