NEWSLINK: “THE EARLY CHAPTERS; Books on the Russia scandal focus on the news. What they need is more history” – Washington Post/Carlos Lozada

Vladirmir Putin and Donald Trump Sitting in Chairs with Flags Behind, adapted from image at whitehouse.gov

“… None of the works on Trump and Russia is comprehensive; the appeal of one or another depends on the angles you obsess over and the blind spots you ignore. …”

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THE FUTURE IS HISTORY
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
By Masha Gessen. Riverhead. 515 pp. $28

COLLUSION
Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win
By Luke Harding. Vintage. 354 pp. $16.95

RUSSIAN ROULETTE
The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump
By Michael Isikoff and David Corn. Twelve. 339 pp. $30

THE ROAD TO UNFREEDOM
Russia, Europe, America
By Timothy Snyder. Tim Duggan Books. 359 pp. $27

TRUMP/RUSSIA
A Definitive History
By Seth Hettena. Melville House. 262 pp. $27.99

FROM COLD WAR TO HOT PEACE
An American Ambassador in Putin’s Russia
By Michael McFaul. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 506 pp. $30

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