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The Yorkists by Anne Crawford
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A Talk With Cullen Murphy, Author of Are We Rome?
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Look Homeward America by Bill Kauffman
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Believers and Infidels
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Lincoln Emancipated: The President And the Politics of Race edited by Brian R. Dirck; foreword by Allen C. Guelzo
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The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Cultureby Louis Dupre
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Edmund Wilson: A Life in Literature by Lewis Dabney
January 26, 20251916 Princeton, a young and still slender Edmund Wilson was advised by professors to "seek the...
Empire of the Stars by Arthur I. Miller
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