A book review and a cocktail recipe
"Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania" by Erik Larson
Erik Larson, whose books include In the Garden of Beasts and The Splendid and the Vile, is one of my favorite popular historians. Like me, he doesn’t have academic credentials, but he is a journalist who digs deep for a story and then tells it extremely well.
The Splendid and the Vile was the second of his books to reach the No. 1 spot on the New York Ti…
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