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By Caitlin Kleinschmidt
| Thursday, April 16, 2015 - Off the Shelf
Each time Erik Larson touches pen to paper, it is a
book-publishing event. Specializing in resurrecting once-famous news stories,
Larson knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than
any novel ever could.
Bringing the history of an entire era to life through a
single narrative thread, Larson’s stories have ranged from a murder mystery
at Chicago’s 1893 World Fair to the American ambassador who witnessed
Hitler’s rise to power to the sinking of the RMS Lusitania during the First World War. If
you think that serious nonfiction can’t achieve the intimate
characterizations and epic scope of the greatest novels, here are the
page-turners to add to your reading list. READ
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