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    LUXURY AT ANY COST

    Oct 02, 2018 3 minutes

    A DANGEROUS WOMAN: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator–The Life of Florence Gould

    By Susan Ronald. 400 pp. St. Martin’s Press, 2018. $27.99.

    OFTEN THE MOST INTERESTING war stories are found far from the battlefield. Writer Susan Ronald has a nose for locating them. In her last book she pulled the curtain back on a mysterious figure at the heart of Nazi art plundering in Europe. She chose an equally intriguing subject for her.

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