Chapter One with Greg Grasso

Deadly River - Ralph Frerichs

14 Jul 2016

Contributed by Lukas

When cholera arrived unexpectedly in Haiti in October 2010, a great mystery unfolded as disease and death decimated the population. Deadly River (Corn...

National Geographic Celebrates 100 Years - Ford Cochran

30 Jun 2016

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Travel with National Geographic photographers as they explore the most fascinating travel adventures in the United States. Take a peak the some of the...

Matthew Palmer - The Wolf of Sarajevo

30 Jun 2016

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A riveting novel of international suspense from acclaimed author and veteran diplomat Matthew Palmer.Twenty years after the Srebrenica massacre that c...

Integration Nation: Immigrants, Refugees, and America at Its Best

27 May 2016

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Integration Nation takes readers on a spirited and compelling cross-country journey, introducing us to the people challenging America’s xenophobic i...

Patrick O'Donnell - Washington's Immortals

18 Apr 2016

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In August 1776, little over a month after the Continental Congress had formally declared independence from Britain, the revolution was on the verge of...

Clint Emerson - 100 Deadly Skills, The SEAL's Operative Guide.mp2

05 Apr 2016

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Hal Niedzviecki - Trees on Mars

02 Mar 2016

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The future is big right now—for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is going to happen in the future than what is happening ...

Roberto Gonzales - Lives in Limbo

02 Mar 2016

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Over two million of the nation’s eleven million undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States since childhood. Due to a broken immigration...

John Jacobs - Life is Good - Casual Interview

25 Feb 2016

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Life is not perfect. Life is not easy. Life is good.We see it when we believe it. Each one of us has a choice: to focus our energy on obstacles or op...

Stephen Alvarez - Rarely Seen, Photographs of the Extraordinary

16 Feb 2016

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In this dazzling book of visual wonders, National Geographic reveals a world very few will have the chance to see for themselves. Shot by some of the ...

Simon Singer - America's Safest City

14 Jan 2016

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Winner of the American Society of Criminology 2015 Michael J. Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Si...

Tess Gerritsen - Playing with Fire

13 Jan 2016

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“When you look at her, what do you see?” “She’s my daughter. Of course I think she’s perfect in every way. But…” “But?”My throat ...

Robert Crais - The Promise

13 Jan 2016

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Elvis Cole and Joe Pike are joined by Suspect heroes LAPD K-9 Officer Scott James and his German shepherd, Maggie, in the new heart-stopping thriller ...

Tavis Smiley - The Covenant with Black America; Ten Years Later

12 Jan 2016

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In 2006, Tavis Smiley teamed up with other leaders in the Black community to create a national plan of action to address the ten most crucial issues f...

Joseph Finder - Suspicion

18 Dec 2015

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Single father Danny Goodman would do anything — anything — to protect his teenaged daughter, Abby, from more unhappiness after her mother’s dea...

Cecelia Tichi - Jack London: A Writer's Fight for a Better America

13 Nov 2015

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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of Londo...

Sally Loughridge - Daniel and His Starry Night Blanket: A Story of Illness and Sibling Love

03 Nov 2015

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This is the tale of a young boy whose older sister gets cancer and, from his perspective, too much of their family's attention. Written and illus...

David Strange - A Conservative and Compassionate Approach to Immigration Reform

17 Sep 2015

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Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto Gonzales and David Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcem...

Bert & John Jacobs - Life is Good

15 Sep 2015

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From Life is Good founders and brothers Bert and John Jacobs, this inspiring book of wisdom celebrates the power of optimism: the driving force behind...

David Baldacci - The Keeper

09 Sep 2015

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Vega Jane was always told no one could leave the town of Wormwood. She was told there was nothing outside but the Quag, a wilderness filled with dange...

Nick Bunker - An Empire on the Edge, How Britain Came to Fight America

09 Sep 2015

Contributed by Lukas

Finalist for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWritten from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins o...

Laurie King & Les Klinger—A Study in Sherlock

01 Sep 2015

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In this episode King and Klinger discuss the story collection they edited entitled a Study in Sherlock. Neil Gaiman. Laura Lippman. Lee Child. These a...

David Laskin—The Children's Blizzard

01 Sep 2015

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An award-winning classic of creative non-fiction, The Children’s Blizzard is the true story of an epic winter storm that hit the Upper Midwest on Ja...

Alex Grecian—The Devil's Workshop

01 Sep 2015

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They thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking cas...

Sandra Brown—Operation Thriller

01 Sep 2015

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In this episode Brown discusses her book Operation Thriller. Sandra Brown is the author of sixty-two New York Times bestsellers, including LOW PRESSUR...

Sandra Brown - Friction

31 Aug 2015

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown comes a gripping story of family ties and forbidden attraction.Crawford Hunt wants his daughter...

Mike Bond—House of Jaguar

27 Aug 2015

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Chopper pilot and Vietnam war hero Joe Murphy finds himself in the middle of the brutal Guatemalan revolution when he witnesses an attack on a Mayan v...

Robert Cunningham - Afghanistan on the Bounce

21 Aug 2015

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What was it like to serve in Afghanistan? That is the question civilians often ask returning servicemembers of the armed forces. Afghanistan: On the B...

Eve Spangler - Understanding Israel/Palistine, Race, Nation, and Human Rights in the Conflict

21 Aug 2015

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The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the longest, ongoing hot-and-cold war of the 20th and 21st centuries. It has produced more refugees than any curre...

Raymond Khoury—Rasputin's Shadow

21 Aug 2015

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It all starts on a cold, bleak day in 1916, a mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously...

Tess Gerritsen - What's Next?

13 Aug 2015

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Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career. A graduate of Stanford University, Tess went on to medica...

Jeff Deaver - Solitude Creek

13 Aug 2015

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Jeffery Deaver, "the master of manipulation" (Associated Press) and "the most creative, skilled and intriguing thriller writer in the w...

Peter Leonard - Eyes Closed Tight

13 Aug 2015

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O'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. He runs the place with his mu...

David Baldacci - Memory Man

12 Aug 2015

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Amos Decker's life changed forever--twice.The first time was on the gridiron. A big, towering athlete, he was the only person from his hometown o...

Andrew Gerow Hodges, Jr.- Behind Nazi Lines

11 Aug 2015

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In 1944, hundreds of Allied soldiers were trapped in POW camps in occupied France. The odds of their survival were long. The odds of escaping, even lo...

Joseph Finder - The Fixer

11 Aug 2015

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New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers his next breakneck stand-alone thriller about the secrets families can keep, and the danger o...

Stephanie Sacks - What the Fork Are You Eating?

10 Aug 2015

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It's labeled "natural," "grass-fed," or "free-roaming;" yet it might be anything but. It's time to find out wh...

Jay Richards - Silhouette of Virtue

10 Aug 2015

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It is 1973. A small college town in Southern Illinois is terrorized by a spree of sadistic assaults. The rapist tells the victims—all Asian women—...

Mick Ebeling-Not Impossible

10 Jul 2015

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Mick Ebeling—a film and TV producer by trade, an optimist by nature—set out on a simple act of kindness that quickly turned into a lifelong missio...

Brad Taylor-No Fortunate Son

10 Jul 2015

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In the latest thriller in the New York Times bestselling Pike Logan series, a hostage situation places America’s most powerful political elite at th...

Lee Child - Personal

19 Nov 2014

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Someone has taken a long-range shot at the French president but failed to kill him. The suspected sniper has serious skills and is a hard man to find....

MIke Kelly - The Bus on Jaffa Road

19 Nov 2014

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A Story of Middle East Terrorism and the Search for JusticeAfter their children are killed in a terrorist bombing, three American families attempt to ...

Kira Peikoff - No Time to Die

19 Nov 2014

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In a Washington, D.C. research lab, a brilliant scientist is attacked by his own test subjects. At Columbia University, a talented biochemist is lured...

John P Davidson - The Obedient Assassin

19 Nov 2014

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A dark and riveting thriller that reimagines the life and mission of the Spanish nationalist enlisted to murder Leon Trotsky: Based on a true chapter ...

David Baldacci - The Escape

19 Nov 2014

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THE ESCAPEIt’s a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. Th...

James Lee Burke—Wayfaring Stranger

20 Aug 2014

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In his most ambitious work yet, New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke tells a classic American story through one man's unforgettable life—c...

Eric Leuthardt—RedDevil 4

20 Aug 2014

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RedDevil 4 is spine-tingling techno-thriller based on cutting edge research from surgeon and inventor Eric C. Leuthardt.Renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Haga...

Mike Bond - Casual Conversation

10 Aug 2014

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Bestselling author, environmental activist, human rights and war correspondent, award-winning poet and international energy expert, Mike Bond has live...

Allan Topol—The Spanish Revenge

08 Aug 2014

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Craig Page, the bold and daring EU Director of Counterterrorism, becomes the focal point of an effort to stop the feared terrorist Ahmed Sadi, whose g...

Greg Zuckerman—The Frackers

25 Jul 2014

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In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling ...

Andrew Peterson—Forced to Kill

07 Jul 2014

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Trained Marine sniper Nathan McBride is the sole survivor of Montez de Oca, the brutal Nicaraguan interrogator who tortured countless souls to death b...

Nelson DeMille—The Quest

07 Jul 2014

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An earlier, shorter version of The Quest was published in paperback in 1975. In 2013, I rewrote The Quest and doubled its length, making it, I hope, a...

Chris Pegula—From Dude to Dad

06 Jul 2014

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From Dude to Dad gives you the need-to-know essentials on pregnancy, birthing, and parenthood, and how it’s okay to be scared out of your mind. You’...

Ridley Pearson—The Red Room

06 Jul 2014

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John Knox is an expert at surveillance and delicate, international dealings. So he is understandably thrown when David “Sarge” Dulwich, his contac...

Barbara Hendricks—Lifting My Voice: A Memoir

06 Jul 2014

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Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After gr...

Jeff Deaver—The Kill Room

01 Jul 2014

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Robert Moreno, an American citizen living in South America, is shot in the Bahamas by a sniper. The killing was commissioned by the U.S. government, w...

Daniel James Brown—The Boys in the Boat

01 Jul 2014

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They thought he was gone, but they were wrong. Jack the Ripper is loose in London once more.Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad faces the most shocking cas...

Lee Childs—A Wanted Man

20 Jun 2014

Contributed by Lukas

Four people in a car, hoping to make Chicago by morning. One man driving, another telling stories that don’t add up. A woman in the back, silent and...

David Baldacci—The Target

19 May 2014

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The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and f...

Jeff Deaver —The Skin Collector

18 May 2014

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In his classic thriller The Bone Collector, Jeffery Deaver introduced readers to Lincoln Rhyme-the nation's most renowned investigator and forens...

Dale Brown—Starfire

16 May 2014

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With the death of his heroic father, bomber and space warfare veteran Patrick McLanahan, Bradley McLanahan must now fly solo, leading a team of young ...

Mariana Cook —Justice: Faces of the Human Rights Revolution

08 May 2014

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New York-based photographer Mariana Cook is known for her character studies of persons both in and out of the public eye. Among her previous bestselli...

Stephen White—An Informal Discussion

18 Apr 2014

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Stephen White is the author of the New York Times bestselling Alan Gregory novels. In his books, he draws upon over fifteen years of clinical practice...

Peter Leonard—Eyes Closed Tight

12 Apr 2014

Contributed by Lukas

O'Clair is a former Detroit homicide investigator who now owns a motel in Pompano Beach, Florida in his retirement. He runs the place with his mu...

Mark Rubinstein—The Foot Soldier

08 Apr 2014

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Right after college graduation, Costa, a lower-middle-class kid from Buffalo, New York, is drafted into the US army and plunged into the Vietnam War. ...

Teresa Tamura—Minidoka An American Concentration Camp

08 Apr 2014

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After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 — the same year my parents graduated from Caldwell High School — President Franklin D. Roosevelt s...

Dee Williams—The Big Tiny

02 Apr 2014

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Dee Williams’s life changed in an instant, with a near-death experience in the aisle of her local grocery store. Diagnosed with a heart condition at...

Chris Pan Launois—L'American, A Photojournalist's Life

02 Oct 2013

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Chris Pan Launois talks about his father John Launois and the part he played as one of the most celebrated photojournalist on modern times.___________...

Mark Rubinstein—Love Gone Mad

23 Sep 2013

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When heart surgeon Adrian Douglas and Megan Haggarty, RN, meet at the hospital where they work, neither has any idea of the scorpion's nest into ...

Allan Topel—The Russian Endgame

17 Sep 2013

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When former KGB agent Dimitri Orlov orchestrates an alliance between two world powers bent on domination, he unleashes a powerful chain of events that...

Caroline Stossinger—A Century of Wisdom: Lessons from the Life of Alice Herz-Sommer, the World's Oldest Living Holocaust Survivor

08 May 2013

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The subject of the Academy Award–winning documentary The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Alice Herz-Sommer was the world’s oldest Holocaust...

William Gladstone—The Power of Twelve

31 Mar 2013

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The year 2012 didn’t mark the end of civilization as many had mistakenly predicted. Rather, it marked a turning point in human consciousness, a shif...

Mark Rubinstein—Mad Dog House

05 Feb 2013

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Right after college graduation, Costa, a lower-middle-class kid from Buffalo, New York, is drafted into the US army and plunged into the Vietnam War. ...

Larry Bond & Jim Defelice—Red Dragon Rising: Blood of War

17 Jan 2013

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Red Dragon Rising: Blood of War, an explosive new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice.As depression and drough...

Mary Morgan Rockerfeller—Beginning With The End, A Story of Twin Loss

20 Aug 2012

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In1961, Michael Rockefeller, son of then-governor of New York State Nelson A. Rockefeller, mysteriously disappeared off the remote coast of southern N...

David Baldacci—The Innocent

18 Aug 2012

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America has enemies--ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the U.S. government calls on Will R...

Lisa Gardner—An Informal Discussion

09 Jul 2012

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Lisa Gardner, a #1 New York Times crime thriller novelist, began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she t...

Susan Hertog—Ann Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life

09 Jul 2012

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In this episode, Hertog discusses her book Ann Morrow Lindbergh: Her Life. An illuminating portrait of Anne Morrow Lindbergh--loyal wife, devoted mot...

Vince Flynn—Kill Shot

09 Apr 2012

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In the year since the CIA trained and then unleashed him, Mitch Rapp has been steadily working his way through a list of men, bullet by bullet. With e...

Steve Berry—The Columbus Affair

09 Apr 2012

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A family’s secret, a ruthless fanatic, and a covert arm of the American government—all are linked by a single puzzling possibility: What if everyt...

Larry Bond—Red Storm Rising

01 Mar 2012

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Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked ...

Larry Bond—Red Dragon Rising

15 Feb 2012

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More than twenty years ago, Larry Bond helped Tom Clancy write Red Storm Rising, the iconic techno thriller of the Cold War era. Now he returns (with ...

Jeffrey Deaver—An Informal Discussion

26 Jan 2012

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An informal discussion with Jeff Deaver. We talked about traveling, cooking, drinking good wine, and a look into his creative process, work discipline...

Tess Gerritsen—On her career, work ethic and family.

20 Jan 2012

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A fun chat with Tess and my co-host, Karen Peterson. Internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen took an unusual route to a writing career.While...

Ridley Pearson—An Informal Discussion

01 Dec 2011

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Ridley Pearson is a New York Times best-selling author with nearly 30 adult suspense novels and over 15 children's adventure novels published in ...

David O. Stewart—American Emperor

01 Dec 2011

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The author discusses his book American EmperorThis vivid biography portrays Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figu...

Alexandra Fuller—Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

08 May 2011

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In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an un...