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Week of August 5, 2013

#1  Robert Cohen and Sonia Murrow: Who's Afraid of Radical History?

#2  Warren Throckmorton: A Year Ago Thomas Nelson Lost Confidence in "The Jefferson Lies"

#3  Larry Schweikart and Burton Folsom: Obama's False History of Public Investment

#4  Rick Perlstein: ALEC's Illegal Past?

#5  Julian Zelizer: Crunch Time for Immigration, Budget Fights

#6  Stephen Mihm: A Century of International Potash Intrigue

#7  Natalie Zemon Davis: How the FBI Turned Me On to Rare Books

#8  James Traub: The Tea Party’s Path to Irrelevance

#9  Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Old Stories from the New China

#10  Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Towards a Radical New Theory of Anglo-American Slavery, and Vindication of Free Markets