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King: A Life by Jonathan Egg Macmillan Publishers May 2023 557 pages Most Americans know something about Martin Luther King Jr. After all, in 1983 a federal holiday was named after him to celebrate his remarkable life and positive impact on the nation. Only one other American has had a
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The Big Fail: What the Pandemic Revealed About Who America Protects and Who It Leaves Behind by Joseph Nocera and Bethany Lee McLean Penguin Random House 448 pages October 2023 This book describes the business aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic, and the problems that resulted in multiple failures, both in
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Should young Americans go to college? Two former professors addressed the topic in Don't Go to College: A Case for Revolution, released in August last year.
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Charlie Baker wrote a book. And like him, it's sort of just there.
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis By Serhii Plokhy April 2021 464 pages W.W. Norton With President Vladimir Putin putting Russian nuclear forces on high alert several weeks ago, what book could be timelier than Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly, an outstanding narrative of those
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The Hundred-Year Marathon: China's Secret Strategy To Replace America As The Global Superpower By Michael Pillsbury 428 pages Macmillan It is hard not to notice how China has changed in the past half dozen years. China has cracked down on the country's 80-plus million Christians, persecuting
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When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment By Ryan T. Anderson Encounter Books February 2018 Most of us have seen the 1989 movie When Harry Met Sally – the delightful if prurient comedy (starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan) about a friendship which develops into a love affair. Ryan
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American Ulysses: A Life of Ulysses S. Grant Ronald C. White Random House October 2016 In Ronald C. White's magisterial biography of Ulysses S. Grant, he quotes the following from President Grant's first inaugural address on March 4, 1869: "All laws will be faithfully executed,
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