This week, Nicola Shulman salutes the memoirs of an old-school editor and socialite; and Rebecca Fraser on an unexpectedly peaceful transition of power in 17th-century America.
'When the going was good: an editor’s adventures during the last golden age of magazines', by Graydon Carter
'Taking Manhattan: the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America', by Russell Shorto
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