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          <body><![CDATA[Irreverent, sarcastic, serious and scary in its Non-Fiction feel. <br/><br/>Picoult has the knack of ending pages with great thoughts, ironies or questions. And very similar to Kingsolver's &quot;The Poisonwood Bible&quot;, each chapter is narrated from a different character's POV. From the get-go...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61397854">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[12-12-09<br/>Finished a while ago, yet have a few more notes to remind myself for later date:<br/><br/>Thomas Hart Benton, Senator from Missouri for more than 30 years, 1820-50 who stood against his slavery sister states for the Union and the repeal of the California split.<br/><br/><br/>Pg 77...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77377087">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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          <body><![CDATA[A resource for greater correlations to &quot;Simple&quot;, Hughes' everyman, common sense Voice of Reason, character, the author's poetry and insights from Rampersad are vital.]]></body>
        
    
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    <updated_at>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:13:42 -0800</updated_at>
        
      
          <body><![CDATA[I chose this book particularly since “Simple” is the common man’s voice during such upheavals as WWII, where paradoxically, blacks and other minorities were fighting for those same freedoms they were being denied back here at “home”. Additionally, Simple would speak to other contradictory ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52038392">more...</a>]]></body>
        
    
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