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Short Takes

Capsule reviews of three recent books

By Kate Tuttle
October 30, 2011

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In this week’s Short Takes Kate Tuttle offers capsule review of Tony Horwitz’s biographical narrative “Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War’’; John Paul Stevens’ “Five Chiefs: A Supreme Court Memoir’’; and Robert R. Crease’s “World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for a Universal System of Measurement.’’

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MIDNIGHT RISING: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War

By Tony Horwitz

Holt, 384 pp., $29

FIVE CHIEFS:

A Supreme Court Memoir

By John Paul Stevens

Little, Brown, 304 pp., illustrated, $24.99

WORLD IN THE BALANCE: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement

By Robert P. Crease

Norton, 317 pp., illustrated, $26.95