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Ben Hamilton is a former history teacher who's finally snapped. Now he lives in a big black van called “the Beast,” from which he roams the country, documenting what he thinks might be the collapse of American civilization. The way he sees it, bored history students in future generations will need to study our embarrassing time period no matter what, so he might as well write some entertaining primary source documents for them. When not having wacky adventures, he lives with his extremely accommodating wife. ...more

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Sorry Guys, We Stormed the Capitol: The Preposterous, True Story of January 6th and the Mob That Chased Congress From the Capitol. Told in Their Own Words. (The Chasing History Project #1)

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Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America

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