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"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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Random House
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[2024]
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English
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The Pulitzer Prize Award–winning author tells the story of the massive changes underway in America through the eyes of an Iraq war veteran engulfed by the fear and anger sweeping through his beloved country. David Finkel, known for his unique, in-depth reporting, spent fourteen years deep inside Brent Cummings’s world to create this intimate and vivid portrait of a man’s life, his work, family, community, his thoughts, and his quest for connection,...
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St. Martin's Press
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2023.
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English
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The story of diplomat George Kennan’s 1885 trip to Siberia and how it exposed the brutal Czarist prison system and how it was used to suppress internal dissent. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man's harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history's most heinous human rights abuses.
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