Cast-Iron Builder, Iron-Clad Renown
The building at 63 Nassau Street is one of the few surviving architectural works of the cast-iron pioneer James Bogardus, a building designated a Landmark last year.
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Nonfiction Chronicle
New books by Philip Dray, Ray Moynihan and Alan Cassels, John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger, Brian Murphy and Jesse Helms.
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The Long Hot Summer and the More Perfect Union
In his book about the framers of the Constitution, Mr. Stewart has done a nimble job of retelling a familiar story.
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Religious Intent
A Christian America? A secular America? Steven Waldman argues the founders had in mind something else entirely.
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