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Professor Richard Pipes will be on C-SPAN's Booknotes tonight, 8:00pm EST, with host Brian Lamb. Pipes will be discussing his new book Vixi: Memoirs of a Non-Belonger.Distinguished historian, Harvard professor, and White House adviser looks back on his own life and on the tumultuous twentieth century. Sixteen-year-old Richard Pipes escaped from Nazi-occupied Warsaw with his family in October 1939. Their flight took them to the United States by way of Italy, and Pipes went on to earn a college degree, join the U.S. Air Corps, serve as professor of Russian history at Harvard for nearly forty years, and become adviser...