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Russell Shorto

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Russell Shorto is the author of Descartes' Bones: A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason, a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and the director of the John Adams Institute, the American cultural center in Amsterdam. His last book was the bestselling The Island at the Center of the World.

May 25, 2011

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