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History of Madness by Michel Foucault
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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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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
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