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Very Heaven | J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
Jul 5, 2023 - One day last summer, the Place de la Concorde was a riot of color as a cloud of hot-air balloons rose majestically and blew eastward across Paris to mark
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A King's Madness | J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
Apr 23, 2026 - In the early summer of 1788, George III was gently but steadily going off his head. He had been mad before, early in his reign shortly after his marriage,
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A King's Madness | J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
Apr 23, 2026 - In the early summer of 1788, George III was gently but steadily going off his head. He had been mad before, early in his reign shortly after his marriage,
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J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
J.H. Plumb (1911–2001) was a British historian. He taught at Cambridge and Columbia. Plumb was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1968 and was knighted...
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Spreading the News | J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
Sep 16, 2020 - Since World War II professional history in America has become more sophisticated and analytical, more European, than ever before. The great historians of
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https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1985/11/07/franklins-mint/
Franklin's Mint | J.H. Plumb | The New York Review of Books
Sep 14, 2020 - Benjamin Franklin has not attracted as many biographers as one might expect. His professional life was so complicated that would-be biographers shy away.
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