Nonfiction: The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture

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“The Club,” by Leo Damrosch, is a dazzling history of the get-togethers during which London’s leading lights — including Samuel Johnson, Edward Gibbon and Adam Smith — ate, drank and exchanged ideas.

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