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The Fort Bragg Cartel: Drug Trafficking and Murder in the Special Forces
The Girl from Devil's Lake (Joanna Brady Mysteries)
Fight Oligarchy
Shadow Ticket
The Harvey Girl
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The Netanyahus
Den of Iniquity (J.P. Beaumont, #26)
Fear and Fury: The Reagan Eighties, the Bernie Goetz Shootings, and the Rebirth of White Rage
The Haves and Have-Yachts: Dispatches on the Ultrarich
Last Night
October in the Earth
Dear Hanna
Text Appeal
Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America
The Great Gatsby
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Catcher in the Rye
Of Mice and Men
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Adventures of Tom and Huck, #2)
The Grapes of Wrath
Slaughterhouse-Five
Fahrenheit 451
Beloved
The Underground Railroad
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
Moby-Dick or, The Whale
East of Eden
The Old Man and the Sea
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Colson Whitehead
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes--believes with all its heart--that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn't exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty. Yet here we are. ...more
Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad

Vine Deloria Jr.
Never has America lost a war ... But name, if you can, the last peace the United States won. Victory yes, but this country has never made a successful peace because peace requires exchanging ideas, concepts, thoughts, and recognizing the fact that two distinct systems of life can exist together without conflict. Consider how quickly America seems to be facing its allies of one war as new enemies.
Vine Deloria Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto

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