8 New Books We Recommend This Week
Dec. 24, 2020
As the end of this endless year approaches, we find ourselves in a retrospective mood: Out with the old, in with the even older! Our recommended books this week cast an eye back on the Bolshevik Revolution and the seeds of the Cold War (“The Lenin Plot,” by Barnes Carr); and on the little-known role that people fleeing slavery played in American foreign and domestic policy before the Civil War (“South to Freedom,” by Alice L. Baumgartner); and on the ways that Winston Churchill’s larger-than-life legacy continues to shape British politics to this day (“The Churchill Myths,” by Steven Fielding, Bill Schwarz and Richard Toye).