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The Partly Cloudy Patriot

I’m a sucker for Puritan New England and the Civil War. Because those two subjects feature the central tension of American life, the conflict between freedom and community, between individual will and the public good.

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Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow

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Pulphead: Essays

John Jeremiah Sullivan

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Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation

Erin Kissane, Writer/Researcher - XOXO Festival (2024)

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Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers

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Thrown Under the Omnibus: A Reader

P. J. O'Rourke

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The Daily Show (The Book): An Oral History as Told by Jon Stewart, the Correspondents, Staff and Guests

Chris Smith

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