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Jacob’s favorite books

Slouching Toward Bethlehem. by Joan Didion Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain A Cook's Tour by Anthony Bourdain 1984 by George Orwell All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn Animal Farm by George Orwell
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