Kai Bird’s ‘The Good Spy’: a lost link to peace in the Middle East

‘Little Demon in the City of Light’: a hypnotic murder

‘One Summer: America, 1927’: America at a turning point

‘The Bully Pulpit’: a president’s clash with his successor

‘The Terror Courts’: rough justice at Guantánamo

‘The Boys in the Boat’: UW team vanquishes Hitler’s crew

‘How the French Invented Love’: 900 years of living, loving and liaisons

‘Master of the Mountain’: Thomas Jefferson’s enduring support of slavery

‘What Money Can’t Buy’: putting a price on the public good

Young American in Paris tale is lightweight but amusing