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A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo

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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

American Caesar by William Manchester

The Great Santini by Pat Conroy

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Book cover for The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism

The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism by Doris Kearns Goodwin

As S. S. McClure well understood, the “vitality of democracy” depends on “popular knowledge of complex questions.”

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)

by Rick Atkinson

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