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Alex Beam
Alex Beam has served as a columnist for the Boston Globe and the International Herald Tribune. Two of his seven nonfiction books—Gracefully Insane and A Great Idea at the Time—were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Beam has also written for The Atlantic, Slate, and many other publications. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
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American Crucifixion
A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the…
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A Great Idea at the Time
Today the classics of the western canon, written by the proverbial "dead white men," are cannon fodder in the culture wars. But in the 1950s…
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Gracefully Insane
Its landscaped ground, chosen by Frederick Law Olmsted and dotted with Tudor mansions, could belong to a New England prep school. There are no fences,…