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Amanda Foreman

Amanda Foreman is the author of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire and A World on Fire: Britain's Crucial Role in the American Civil War, one of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of 2011. She is the recipient of the Whitbread Award for Biography and the Fletcher Pratt Award for Civil War History.

Park of Ages

Park of Ages

Far more than just an urban retreat, Hyde Park is a living archive of British culture and history

by Amanda Foreman | Monday, June 10, 2013

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Plunging to Earth

by Robert Zaretsky

Still dreaming up ways to safely enjoy this year’s summer vacation? “Safe” may be a relative term here—but if you’re feeling brave, you could take up skydiving, as Robert Zaretsky once did. “As I fell,” he wrote in our Summer 2011 issue, “I blurted out—like so many others have, I later learned—‘Mommy!’”

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