533 books
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37 voters
1960s
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King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He had called it the most savage place he had ever seen. Now he revised his opinion: 'I think the people of Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate.
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― Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
― Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
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I am always being asked: ‘What are the Beatles really like?’ I never know quite what to say because they are what they are and anyone who has ever seen or heard them either in person, or on radio or screen has, basically, as much chance as I have of knowing what they are like. I believe and I must say it, that they are quite magnificent human beings, utterly honest, often irritating but splendid citizens shining in a very ordinary, not very pleasing world.
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― A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative
― A Cellarful of Noise: The Autobiography of the Man Who Made the Beatles With a New Companion Narrative
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