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Exit Right: The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century

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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin by Timothy Snyder

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But the concentration camps are not where most of the victims of National Socialism and Stalinism died. These misunderstandings regarding the sites and methods of mass killing prevent us from perceiving the horror of the twentieth century.

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“There’s no point in arguing with a fanatic man, as there would be no point in arguing with an intellectual, intellectual just being a nicer word than fanatic.”
― Tuvia Tenenbom, Catch The Jew!: Eye-opening education - You will never look at Israel the same way again

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“It was as if she had once been almost smothered and then allowed to live only if she limited her vocabulary and breathed hardly at all.”
― Edith Pearlman, Honeydew: Stories

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“Sooner or later, the realization arrives: the child discovers the immaturity of the parent, and the parent the maturity of his child.”
― David Bezmozgis, The Betrayers

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― Richard Ford, The Lay of the Land

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